Ingrid Law, whose book Savvy received a Newbery Honor Award and is a nominee for the Land of Enchantment Book Award, discusses and signs her follow-up to the novel, Scumble (Dial, $16.99). 
  
Nine years after Mibs's Savvy journey, her cousin Ledge has just turned thirteen... 

Ledger Kale's savvy is a total dud-all he does is make little things fall apart. So his parents decide it's safe to head to Wyoming for a family wedding, where it's soon revealed that Ledge's magic is much more powerful than anyone thought. Worse, his savvy disaster has an outside witness: Sarah Jane Cabot, reporter wannabe and daughter of a local business man. Just like that, Ledge's beloved normal life is over. Now, he has to keep Sarah from turning family secrets into headlines, stop her father from foreclosing on Uncle Autry's ranch, and scumble his savvy into control so that, someday, he can go home. 

Starring a cast both fresh and familiar, Scumble melds heart and humor with the legendary Wild West. 

Ingrid Law has sold shoes, worked in a bookstore, helped other people get jobs and assembled boxes for frozen eggplant burgers. She and her 12-year-old daughter live in Boulder, Colorado, in a lovely old mobile home that they like to believe is a cross between a spaceship and a shoe box. They enjoy writing on its walls and painting on its ceiling, and have two harps, a flute and a ukulele, as well as a fondness for muffins.