Chapter Book Chips - "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
"My name is Calpurnia Virginia Tate...that summer, I was eleven years old and the only girl out of seven children. Can you imagine a worse situtation?"
The year is 1899 and Callie Vee (as she is called by almost everybody) lives in a small Texas town. Callie Vee has six brothers and a mother who is determined to teach her the art and science of housewifery. But Callie has other ideas. She and her grandfather spend their days together in nature studies and in the makeshift laboratory out behind the house. And Callie loves to read too. She yearns to be a scientist and to study animal and plant life. Over the summer, she and "Granddaddy" think they have discovered a new species of a plant and they send off photographs to the Smithsonian. But will Calpurnia's dream of scientific discovery come true? And will she ever master cooking? Spend some time with a delightful girl who finds herself ahead of her time. The story of Calpurnia and her life and family in Fentress, Texas at the turn of the century is a 2010 Newbery Honor Book. -gw-

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