Savvy Characters

With a name like Mississippi, our main girl Mibs has some big shoes to fill. After all, she's named after the second longest—and arguably most famous—river in the United States, and she shares...

Ever hear of middle-child syndrome? Do you have it? Then you'll probably identify with Fish Beaumont, the second born son of the Beaumont family. Fish has a bit of chip on his shoulder trying to pr...

So Bobbi is kind of a jerk—and if she were being honest, we think she'd agree. And that's because Bobbi is a jerk on purpose. It's her way of rebelling against her religious family, of infuriatin...

Maybe it's just the Meeks family, but Will Junior—like his sister, Bobbi—isn't what he seems. He starts off in Savvy as a nice, if also kind of annoying kid who keeps hanging around Mibs, sayin...

Poor Lester has got his work cut out for him. Not only does he have a horrible job working for his ex-girlfriend Carlene, he's also got Carlene and his awful mother's voice telling him he's the wor...

What do you do for a mother when your own mother isn't around? You wait to meet Lill, of course. Lill inadvertently becomes the mother figure for Mibs and the rest of the crew when she boards the b...

Momma Beaumont may do everything perfectly (it's her savvy), but she is definitely not perfect. She even says so herself: "I'm not perfect, Mibs. Nobody's perfect. I just have a knack for getting t...

Poppa Beaumont is one heck of a ladies' man: he managed to convince a beautiful girl with the superpower of doing things perfectly to marry him and start a family. Plus he's got a daughter that thi...

Samson is kind of weirdo, right? Just kidding, he's just a young kid who manages to seem wise despite needing some adult supervision. Samson's special gift seems to be calming people down, which co...

Rocket's other nickname could probably be Sparky, because this boy is electrified. No really—he can shoot electricity out of his fingers. Rocket's motto should be the same as Spiderman's, because...

Old Gramps is kind of silently around during the book. Technically Momma leaves the kids with him when she leaves for Salina to look after Poppa, but all he really seems to do is sleep. Sleeping ma...

Miss Rosemary means well, really she does—but it still doesn't make her particularly likeable. The unfortunate thing about Miss Rosemary is that she's kind of self-righteous. She's doing God's wo...

Ozzie is Lill's boss at the diner who fires her for being late after he car breaks down, and generally he's a controlling jerk who likes to humiliate other people. The only good that comes of this...

Carlene is Lester's ex who wants nothing more than for Lester to do what she says for the rest of his life. She is both a physical person and a voice inside Lester's head that constantly berates hi...

Officer Bill is a secret… sort of. He's the secret that Will Junior keeps, because Office Bill is Will Junior's real dad, not Pastor Meeks. The relationship between Officer Bill and Will Junior i...

Pastor Meeks seems like a pretty angry man. We really only get to see him when he's yelling at Lester about the fact that Lester is selling pink bibles, but we're thinking that's not very pastor-ly...

Grandma Dollop has a really neat savvy—the ability to save radio waves in jars. Momma and Poppa Beaumont saved one jar in particular after her death that contained their favorite song. She seems...

Gypsy Beaumont is the youngest of the Beaumont clan, and for all intents and purposes, is still a toddler. We can only guess at what her savvy might be, but considering her siblings' savvies, it's...

Ashley and Emma are really just the worst. They are the mean girls at Mibs's school, and these two seem certain it's okay to make fun of people.