The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

• Book ID: 126234078
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 645 KB
• Category: Standards
• ISBN: 0805088415

✦ Synopsis

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger.

As Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century.

Debut author Jacqueline Kelly deftly brings Callie and her family to life, capturing a year of growing up with unique sensitivity and a wry wit.

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tatewas the recipient of a 2010Newbery Honor Award. It was also honored with the IRA Children's Book Award, the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award, the TN YA Volunteer State Book Award ML, the Virginia M. Law Award., the Josette Frank Award, and the Judy Lopez Book Award.

It was included in Chicago Public Library Best of the Best list, the Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Choice Award Master List, the Texas Lone Star Reading List and was a 2009 Junior Library Guild Selection.

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