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A pure good time! Law's storytelling voice was so spot on, I really, really believed that she was a 13 year old girl from Kansas! Such a fun book: the characters, the plot, the premise! I would love to have a savvy of my very own! I have to say that this year's Newberys have been a real treat for me. I can't imagine having to chose between this book and Graveyard Book for the medal, they were both excellent.
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Interesting and well-done. I liked the whole family. The savvy part was well-balanced (spoiler-ily (?) ironic, there) with the tragicomic movie-style plot.
It sounded cute, and I put off reading it. And then, of course, I liked it. Despite Mibs turning 13 at the beginning of the story, I think this is a story for slightly younger readers. It's got its sadness, of course, with the father in the hospital, and it's not afraid to mention realities like a homeless man on the street, and there's just the tiniest little smidge of romance. But it's a sweet story about finding your place in the world, combined with a little bit of fantasy and an (unintentio
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Mibs' family all have special abilities, "savvy" that becomes known on their thirteenth birthdays. The gifts seem to be anything -- controlling weather, hearing thoughts, catching radio waves in jars, making new land appear out of nowhere all sorts of things. I think I would have found it a little more convincing if there were more reason behind the savvy (some seemed plausible, others more like aspects of folk tales). But it was a cute, positive story about the difficulties of becoming a teenag
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It reminded me of a modern version of Wizard of Oz! Love it!
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Shoshanah
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