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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate( )
Author: Kelly, Jacqueline
Read by: Ross, Natalie
ISBN:978-1-4418-0247-7
Publication Date:Nov 2009
Publisher:Brilliance Publishing, Inc.
Book Format:Downloadable audio file
List Price:USD $39.97
Book Description:

The summer of 1899 is hot in Calpurnia's sleepy Texas town, and there aren't a lot of good ways to stay cool. Her mother has a new wind machine from town, but Callie might just have to resort to stealthily cutting off her hair, one sneaky inch at a time. She also spends a lot of time at the river with her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist. It turns out that every drop of river water is teeming with life -- all you have to do is look through a microscope!As Callie...
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Kelly, Jacqueline (Author)
Jacqueline Kelly won the Newbery Honor for her first book, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. She was born in New Zealand and raised in Canada, in the dense rainforests of Vancouver Island. Her family then moved to El Paso, Texas, and Kelly attended college in El Paso, then went on to medical school in Galveston. After practicing medicine for many years, she went to law school at the University of Texas, and after several years of law practice, realized she wanted to write fiction. Her first story was published in the Mississippi Review in 2001. She now makes her home with her husband and various cats and dogs in Austin and Fentress, Texas.



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