Savvy by
Ingrid Law Britt's Review
Rating: 4 of 5 stars
I picked this book up recently because it won the Newbery Honor Award. I didn’t have a clue what it was about when I started reading page one, but it didn’t take more than a few pages to be laughing out loud at some of the antics of Mississippi Beaumont, AKA ‘Mibs,’ who lives in Kansaska-Nebransas.
In the Beaumont family, there’s no telling what might happen when you hit adolescence. The Beaumonts like to call this adolescent surprise, ‘getting your Savvy.’ For one of Mibs brothers, Savvy looked like a hurricane, and for another, well… let’s just say lightning hit the same place more than twice. Now that it’s Mibs’s 13th Birthday, she’s just sure that something super special is about to happen to her. And happen it does, but certainly not how she expected it to.
This book is totally zany. I was laughing out loud all throughout it. I absolutely loved the characters and the absurd situations they got themselves into. I wasn’t crazy about the way in which things resolved themselves with Mibs’s father, but since it’s a children’s book, I can understand why the author did what she did.
I think this is a perfect tween and mom book. It will leave you with a warm heart and a big grin on your face. Hurry and go read "Savvy" by Ingrid Law!
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Meet Daniel and Brittany
The challenge that began with "Have a nice life, Daniel Burton" is progressing with favorable results. Surviving and thriving on lively discussions about books, Abby, or the post-grad school world, the Burtons show signs of excellent health and familial success.
Dan and Britt met on a hot July 4th in 2005. Shortly after inviting her to join him for a panoramic view of the Independence Day fireworks, and not long after her denial, Daniel and Britt agreed to break the ice over ice cream. They soon realized that they were both book geeks, decided a permanent union was worth evaluating, and were married just over a year later on another beautiful July day.
After graduating with a law degree from both he and Brittany's alma mater's rival, Daniel is corporate counsel at the Woodbury Corporation, a commercial real estate management and development company in Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, and far more interestingly, Brittany is raising a new generation of Burtons as full-time mother and family creative director. Abby is two and a half, and #2 is on the way, with arrival expected in late June of 2011. The Burtons look forward to many years of exploring canyons, creeks, and mountain tops, swapping novels, notes, and ideas, and enjoying great discussions about people, politics, and their family.
Daniel and Brittany are both graduates of the 2002 class of Brigham Young University. Abby is gunning to graduate from diapers, sooner than later.
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