Unique to each individual, who must then learn how to manage his or her new In this story, Ledger Kale’s thirteenth birthdayĪrrives with the traditional family inheritance of a particular “savvy”-a power Same high level of satisfying plot, delightful characters, alliterative This companion to Newbery Honor Book Savvy (2008) provides the Marvel-laden debut, it’ll be well worth seeing. A film is already in development, and if it lives up to this There are no serious villains here, only challenges to be met,įriendships to be made and some growing up to do on the road to a two-hankyĬlimax. Heartland, Law displays both a fertile imagination (Mibs’s savvy is telepathy,īut it comes with a truly oddball caveat) and a dab hand for likable, colorfulĬharacters. Sending her young cast on a zigzag odyssey through the “Kansaska-Nebransas” ICU impels her to head for the hospital aboard a Bible salesman’s old bus. What she needs when the news that a highway accident has sent her father to the What will hers be? Not what she wants, it turns out, but definitely Her family-except beloved Papa, who married in-has one, from Grandpa Bomba’sĪbility to move mountains (literally) to Great Aunt Jules’s time-traveling Her 13th birthday, when her special gift, or “savvy,” will awaken.
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