Savvy

Title: Savvy Author: Ingrid Law Illustrators: Brandon Dorman Publisher & Date: Penguin Group, 2008 Basics: Main Character(s): Bibliotherapy question: Reviews: [] Personal recommendation: A wonderful book about coming of age and making one's way in the world. A great read aloud because it is full of action and many, many discussion points.
 * Ages: 9-12
 * Type (picture, chapter, young adult, adult): Chapter
 * Length: 342
 * Themes (issues related to gifted, e.g. asynchrony, peers, introversion, sensitivity, intensity, perfectionism): learning to work with gifts, learning to be different, learning to accept gifts, others accepting gifts
 * Name(s):Mississippi Beaumont
 * Age(s): 13
 * Characteristics of giftedness (e.g. advanced vocabulary, imaginational overexcitability - see Silverman's List or the Overexcitabilities): Can hear others inner thoughts--magical giftedness.

Links to lessons: [] Other: (e.g.: Wordle, links to author interview, student book review)

Posted by: Krystal Weiss