Savvy Analysis

This setting isn't just a weird mash-up of names—it's where the Beaumonts jokingly say they live. They moved to the middle of nowhere-land, the edge of Nebraska and Kansas, so that they would be...

Mibs takes the reins in telling the story here and we definitely experience everything through her eyes, ears, and heart. This means we are as certain as Mibs is that her savvy is waking things up,...

AdventureMibs and her friends stow away on a delivery bus, crossing Nebraska and Kansas and lying to the driver, Lester, about what their plans are. On the run from the police and their parents, th...

Savvy is a lot about how life doesn't always turn out the way you hope it will. Mibs decides she knows what her savvy is because she wants to help her father, but by the middle of the book, she thi...

CountryNo—we don't mean that the writing sounds like it came straight from a country song. But we do mean that the word choices and phrasing sound a lot like people who live in small country town...

At first glance, Savvy is pretty easy to understand as a title. After all, it refers directly to the magical power that each of the Beaumonts get when they turn thirteen, and this is a book about M...

We think that you could say the ending neatly wraps up everything in the story… but then again, you could also say that it leaves a lot for a sequel. The ending of Savvy is your basic one-year-la...

You're in luck, Shmoopsters: Savvy isn't very hard to read and it's really enjoyable. Sure there are several characters to keep track of, but they are all very different and interesting, so it's re...

That Old Black Magic's Got Me In Its SpellMibs and her family have more in common than just genes, and in this family everybody develops a special power—a.k.a. a savvy—on their thirteenth bir...

The publisher's info page for both Savvy and info on its sequel, Scumble. (Source) More questions to chew on, along with a summary, excerpts, facts about the author, and suggestions about what to r...

Most of the steaminess in this book is good, clean he-likes-her, she-doesn't-know-if-she-likes-him romance, which makes sense since Mibs is thirteen. And though Will and Mibs do kiss very briefly,...