While they are eating, Mibs reveals that she has discovered her savvy - the ability to read people’s minds through the ink on their bodies. They drop her off at the restaurant where she works and in return, she offers them all a meal. On the way, they pick up a waitress named Lill. She convinces the bus driver to bring them to Salina after finishing his deliveries. Mibs soon notices that the bus is heading in the wrong direction.

She discovers Samson hiding behind the bus already. Sneaking onto a pink bus delivering bibles, she is soon accompanied by Fish, Will Junior, and Bobbi.

She sneaks out of the party and attempts to find a way to get to Salina where her dad is in the hospital. When Mibs awakens, she finds that everyone is arguing. This interaction disorients her and she ends up passing out. When Mibs runs into Bobbi at the party, she notices that his tattoo of an angel is speaking to her. She dresses in the outfit Poppa had picked out for her and goes to attend the party thrown for her by Miss Rosemary. Mibs believes this has something to do with her savvy. All of the animals of the house are awake, even her little brother’s pet turtle that everyone had assumed was dead. The next morning when Mibs wakes up, she notices something odd. After the visit, Miss Rosemary decides that she will take it upon herself to throw Mibs a proper birthday party. She returns home at the end of a tough day to find an unexpected visitor - Miss Rosemary and her children, Bobbi and Will Junior. Luckily, it is Mibs’s last day at school, and it is a terrible one. Throughout the bus ride, Mibs is teased and made fun of. The next day, Mibs gets on the bus with her younger brother, Samson. Momma and Mibs’s brother, Rocket, prepare to leave for Salina immediately-Rocket gets to go because his electric touch makes the family’s old station wagon run-while the rest of the children have to stay home with Grandpa Bomba. As the story begins, Mibs’s mother receives a call that Poppa Beaumont was in a car accident and is in a coma at Salina Hope Hospital. Mibs explains how thirteenth birthdays carry special importance in her family, as it is said that this is the time when the Beaumonts’ develop their “savvy,” a certain supernatural power that is said to be bestowed upon each member of the family. The book opens two days before the narrator, Mississippi “Mibs” Beaumont’s thirteenth birthday. Savvy is a 2008 young adult novel by Ingrid Law.

Savvy book by ingrid law