Another sweet and fun addition to the Savvy series. This one takes place 10 years after the first and is about Mibs's younger sister Gypsy. The story starts when the Beaumont family finds out that their non believer grandma with Alzheimer's must come to live with them. In addition somehow all their savvys get switched for basically the opposite of what they had before. There is a lot here about learning your own true nature and a good message about learning to see your elders as whole people outside of their role as your parent or grandparent. A really sweet story, with stellar characterization for both Gypsy and all the secondary characters. Good sense of place, lovely descriptions and fun scenes involving the new savvys. If you've read the other two books you'll love this one. If you haven't read Savvy and Scumble yet, you need to get right on that. ( )

I enjoyed this book. It really makes you feel good and smile and the story was entertaining. I didn't like it quite as much as the first two books in the trilogy but I still enjoyed it. This is a great story about learning not to let other people affect how you feel about yourself and friendship. ( )

The end of the Savvy power books is bittersweet. I really like Gypsy and her powers, getting to know her brothers Samson and Tucker, and the adventure they went on with new friends. I didn't like it as much as the other two stories but still a really lovely read. ( )

This book is a contemporary fiction as it has believable characters in real life situations, but also has the element of powers and "savvy." This is about the next kid in the Beaumont family named Gypsy who's power is to stop time. She finds out that her grandmother is coming to live with them and she ends up stopping time and also "switching" the families powers so her mother's power switches and her little brother gets his power to grow into the size of a house early. This book does not have illustrations but is very well written and I would use this to read aloud to the class or have in a 5th-7th-grade classroom for fun reading in silent time or for a kid to check out. I do not know how I would use this in an actual lesson. ( )

Gypsy Beaumont just turned 13 and like her other family members before her, she discovers a special talent or "savvy" - hers is seeing someone's future or past when she looks at them without her glasses. But when her grandmother from the non-savvy side gets Alzheimer's and her family has to take her in, Gypsy's and her family's savvies suddenly "switch" to something else. They're going to have to get used to lots of changes, and Gypsy herself is concerned with stopping one of the last visions of the future she saw: her grandmother falling off a clock tower and only Gypsy's arm reaching out to save her.

Each of the books in the Beaumont books takes a tall tale but has a simple, applicable moral. This one is "be yourself." Accept yourself. Accept others. As a kid, I probably would've loved the story. As an adult, I found it a nice story but a little simplistic and possibly I just read it too close to Scumble. The first book, Savvy, was the best of the bunch in my opinion. ( )