Savvy

Author: Ingrid Law

# of pages read: 342( read it all yesterday!)

                                     This book is about an extraordinary family who each has their own savvy, or special talent. Mississippi Beaumont is just 3 days away from her own 13th birthday when her mothers side of the family powers will swift down upon her. Yet right at that specific moment, a call from the phone is heard and her family is told that her father had gotten in a bad car accident. Already her life is a chaos from her electric 17 year old brother, Rocket, 14 year old Fish who controls water, wind, and hurricanes, her perfect mother and 7 year old broody Samson to 3 year old fairy like Gypsy. They live in a place between Nebraska and Kansas, far away from the water, their very own land that Grandpa Bomba created. Her mother and brother Rocket had to go to Salina hospital because Rocket was the only source to start up the old station wagon. Then to make things even worse, Miss Rosemary, the Pastors wife, had to come and make everything tip top by throwing her a Huge party even though Beaumont 13th birthdays were strictly private. On Mibs 13th birthday she believes that her savvy is to wake up things but finds out soon after she sneaks on to a pink bible delivery bus with Fish, Samson, and Will Jr. and Bobby, Miss Rosemary's children, well... at least one of them. A never ending book full of symilies and turns and twists. 

              One word I didn't know was catastrophe. It is a noun that is usually a great and often damage or suffering.