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Article: Jacqueline Kelly: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
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- September 1, 2009
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Jacqueline Kelly The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
340 pp. Holt 5/09 ISBN 978-0-8050-8841-0 $16.99
(Intermediate)
Eleven-year-old Calpurnia is the middle child (and only girl) of seven siblings. It's summertime, 1889, in Fentress, Texas, and hot enough to fry an egg outside: the local newspaper reports that "the temperature was 106 degrees in the middle of the street." After Callie's letter to the editor is published ("It seemed to me that the temperature in the shade would be a lot more useful to the citizens of our town"), her favorite brother encourages her to spend the summer writing down her scientific observations. Trouble is, there's only ...