Savvy

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In which story...

1. Does water have a way of triggering a boy and making ordinary, everyday weather take a frightening turn for the worse? (Fish) Savvy

2. Does a family settle directly between Nebraska and Kansas in a little place all their own? (Beaumonts) Savvy

4. Does a girl, for a half-of-a-half of a second, hate her father for getting into an accident and ruining the pot roast and for wrecking her most important birthday before it even arrived? (Mibs) Savvy

6. Does a family not have any gadgets (a TV) in the house until they know that they will be kept from being destroyed? (Beaumonts – Rocket) Savvy

7. Does a character pray that no one will come to her birthday? (Mibs) Savvy

8. Does a character’s father buy her a new dress for her birthday? (Mibs) Savvy

9. Is there a character, someone’s poppa, who is good and sweet and has wild black eyebrows that twist like dancing beetles’ legs, and a faded tattoo from his navy days – a long-haired mermaid twisting around on anchor on his forearm, just above his heavy silver wristwatch? (Mr. Beaumont) Savvy

10. Does a girl’s tattoo talk to the main character? (Bobbi’s tattoo to Mibs) Savvy

12. Does a character say “I’m not perfect, Mibs. Nobody’s perfect. I just have a knack for getting things right.” (Mibs’ mom) Savvy

13. Does a character want her dad to build a porch swing? (Mibs) Savvy

14. Does a boy use spit to wash an ink drawing of a sun off someone’s hand? (Fish on Will Jr.’s hand) Savvy

15. Does a girl draw a picture of a sun on someone’s hand? (Mibs on Will Jr.) Savvy

17. Does a van full of people pick up a girl whose car broke down? (Lill) Savvy

18. Does a very shy boy who hasn’t talked in months say he wants some banana crème pie? (Samson) Savvy

19. Does a girl see a homeless man who she thinks is dead? (Mibs) Savvy

20. Is there a character who is maybe sent down from Heaven to clear the voices in Lester’s head? (Lill) Savvy

Questions for Savvy by Terry O

1. Is by Ingrid Law?

2.does a 13 year old cause a hurricane?

3.Is there a family that can’t lie next to a large body of water?

4. Does a kid have the ability to make rain storms?

5 Does a family live just off Highway 81 between Kansas and Nebraska?

6.does a family say they live in Kansaska-Nebransas?

7.Does a man have the ability to stretch and move land?

9. Is there a great-aunt Jules who make time go back by 20 minutes when she sneezed?

10. Is a character named Mississippi but called by a nickname?

11. Does a character have a seemingly dead turtle?

12.Does a phone call bring devastating news?

13. Does a father end up in a coma after a car wreck?

14. Is a girl ashamed for briefly thinking she hated her father for ruining her birthday celebration?

15. Is a grandfather left to take care of 4 children?

16. Is a girl in charge of getting her 7 year-old brother to school?

17. Do kids in a family stop going to public school when they turn 13?

18.Does the preacher’s wife come to help out ? 19, Does the preacher’s wife decide to give someone a birthday party?

20. Are there radio waves kept in jars?

21. Does a girl hope no one comes to her birthday party?

22. Does a dead turtle come back to life?

23. Does a tattoo talk to a girl and she faints?

24.Do some kids stowaway on a bus?

25. Does a guy deliver pink Bibles?

26. Does a girl get a pen set as a gift?

27. .Does a kid give another kid a black eye?

28. Does a bus driver stop to help a woman in a broken down car on the highway?

29. Can a 7 year old calm his brother and sister with a touch of a hand?

30. Does a character hear voices in her head?

31. Do characters have to learn to scumble?

32. In what book does a character say, “ We’re born and sometime later we die. And in between, we’re happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else”?

33. Will a bus stop if it goes more than 54 miles an hour?

35. Do characters see their own pictures on a missing person alert on TV? 36. Does a man have a tattoo of his mother and girlfriend? 37. Do two boys have a water fight in a swimming pool? 38. Does a girl get her first kiss at a swimming pool? 39. Does a boy get shut up in a cupboard in a mobile home? 40. Does a woman call the police to report some missing children? 41. Is a character being raised by his grandparents? 42. Does a father survive a head injury? 43. Does a family get reunited at a hospital? 44. Does a character say, ”You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen? 45.Do characters fool an adult into thinking they called home?