HOORAY!
Available in paperback March 23!
SAVVY
by Ingrid Law
Puffin Books /
Penguin Young Readers Group
On-Sale: March 23, 2010
$7.99 Trade Paperbakc
ISBN-13: 9780142414330
Dial Books /
Penguin Young Readers Group
On-Sale: May 1, 2008
$16.99 Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-3306-0
Children’s Middle Grade Fiction
Ages 9-11, Grades 4-6
2009
Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award
Honor Book!
Featured now in the 2009 MBA Catalog –
Books – A Reader’s Catalog
– at participating MBA member bookstores!
MBA Bookseller Information
We hope you like this debut novel as much as we do – please do send us your reviews and comments!
SAVVY is a great choice for kids’ reading groups. Be sure to add it to your list of recommended books for summer or upcoming fall groups!
Author Ingrid Law lives in Colorado and is interested in doing events with bookstores, where feasible. For more information on SAVVY, please contact Samantha Dell’Olio at 212.414.3464 or samantha.dell’olio@us.penguingroup.com
Downloads
- Reading Group Guide (PDF)
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- Publisher’s press release (PDF)
- Small B&W print ad (PDF)
- Book photo (JPG) - hardcover
- Book photo (JPG) – paperback
- Author photo (JPG)
- Midwest Connections Rebate Form (PDF)
- Midwest Connections Generic Display Materials
About the Book
“SAVVY is a wonderfully creative story set in a little place directly between Kansas and Nebraska, known as Kansaska on Monday through Wednesday and Nebransas on Thursday through Saturday. It reminds us that we all have our own special talents, although they may not be as spectacular as those of the characters in this book, who cause hurricanes and electrical surges until they learn to ‘scumble’ their savvies. Ingrid Law’s voice is fresh, humorous, and heartwarming without being sentimental. SAVVY is one of the most satisfying middle grade novels I’ve read in a long time.”
- Carla Ketner, Chapters Books & Gifts, Seward, NE“There’s nothing I didn’t love about SAVVY. Like the best fantasy storytellers, Law immediately creates a world where the wildest things seem perfectly normal. And her language is delicious, full of alliteration, repetition, and inventive similes. Just listen to these sentences from the very first page: “I had liked living down south on the edge of land, next to the pushing-pulling waves. I had liked it with a mighty kind of liking, so moving had been hard-hard like the pavement the first time I fell off my pink two-wheeler and my palms burned like fire from all of the hurt just under the skin.” Not to mention my favorite new vocabulary word “scumble,” a painting term the Beaumonts use to describe learning to control their talents in public. Savvy goes far beyond the standard “it’s hard to be different” young-adult tale to a strong-voiced, delightful novel that anyone who appreciates eccentricity will enjoy.”
- Anna Perleberg, Watermark Books, Wichita, KS
In Ingrid Law’s debut novel, SAVVY, readers are introduced to the Beaumonts, an eclectic family who can move mountains, stir up hurricanes and spark electricity. Each of them possesses a “savvy”- a special power that erupts when they turn thirteen – and young Mibs Beaumont is celebrating her big birthday in two days.
Savvies haven’t always been kind to their family. These paranormal teenage “gifts” have forced the them to move around the country, to be viewed as outcasts within their communities and even driven their children to be home-schooled. Mibs is eager to blow out her thirteen dripping candles, but more importantly, she can’t wait discover her savvy. When her big day arrives, she finds herself on an odyssey that will force her to make sense of growing up – and of others, who also might have a few secrets hidden just beneath their skin.
SAVVY is a modern-day tall tale filled with characters who illuminate the pages, and whose fanastic powers (and familiar wishes) take readers on an unforgettable ride. Ingrid Law may be a newcomer, but this sparkling, whimsical debut is destined to become a classic.
INGRID LAW has sold shoes, worked in a bookstore, helped other people get jobs, and assembled boxes for frozen eggplant burgers. She and her twelve-year-old daughter live in Boulder, Colorado, in a lovely old mobile home that they like to believe is a cross between a spaceship and a shoe box. This is her first novel.
