Savvy

This week I read Savvy,  by Ingrid Law. This book is kind of like a coming of age book. Mibs is about to turn thirteen, and lives as part of a family called the Beaumonts, who are harboring a strange secret; when they turn thirteen, each of them gets a special knowledge, called a savvy. Mibs has two older brothers, one named Rocket (who controls electricity) and Fish (who controls the water), as well as a younger brother and sister, a grandpa, and a mom and dad. It's generally pretty hard for the Beaumonts to make friends; everybody can sense something is different about them, that they don't fit in, and playdates are not allowed because of the weirdness of their house, with tons of kids with different savvys, still learning how to control them, and sometimes things going wrong. The day before Mib's 13th birthday, when she gets her savvy, her dad gets in a car crash. Her mom, Grandpa, and oldest brother Rocket all leave in order to take care of him, and try to wake him up from the coma that he's in. They leave the kids under the care of Mrs. Rosemary, and her 16-year-old daughter Bobbi and son Will, who is Mib's age. Mibs wakes up on her 13th birthday, and realizes something-her savvy might be crucial to saving her dad's life. Through a series of events, Mibs, Fish, Bobbi, Will, and her younger brother Sampson hitchhike in the back of a bus, hoping to get to Mib's dad, and meet some pretty cool people along the way.
This book is AMAZING, but don't read it if you are too old. I think that this book would be great for the sixth graders in our class, especially the girls. It's an awesome book, probably the best coming-of-age novel I've read so far, that has Mibs dealing with growing up, boys, and a lot of other things. Also, it's so imaginative, and it relates to something I think that we've all imagined about, running away with our friends. The characters are AMAZING, and it's just so funny and so relatable.
Overall, I wish that I had read this book sooner, as a sixth or maybe seventh grader. It's really amazing though; I would totally recommend reading it, especially for girls but for boys too, if you want a funny, relatable, coming of age book that is not inappropriate at all. Overall, This was a really good realistic fiction book, even if it was a little too young for me (totally read it sixth grader girls)!