With Mamma on her way to his bedside, in comes the pastor's bossy wife, Miss Rosemary, to look out for the Beaumont kids. Mibs thinks her savvy might include the power to wake up Poppa. Poppa's been in a car wreck and he's unconscious in a hospital in Salina, 40 miles away. She'll be home schooled from now on, since it's not really safe to be around outsiders until you learn to scumble your savvy. Except for school and church, Mibs doesn't get to be around other kids much, which is okay since they think she's weird anyway. The family lives off the highway in a remote place between Nebraska and Kansas. Mibs mentions second cousin Olive, who can melt ice with a single red-hot stare.) And now Mibs is on the eve of her thirteenth birthday, the day her savvy will kick in, and she's impatient to know how it will change her life. (Female savvies tend to be less flamboyant, though certainly not always. Mamma's savvy is that she does everything perfectly. Rocket, now seventeen, is electric through and through. "When my brother Fish turned thirteen, we moved to the deepest part of inland, because of the hurricane and, of course, the fact that he'd caused it." With that first sentence washing you over like a storm, meet Mibs Beaumont, from a most unordinary family, each member having an exceptional talent or savvy.
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