The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Review by: Yagyesha Roy The main character, Calpurnia Virginia Tate (AKA Callie Vee), lives in Fentress, Texas, approximately 50 miles from Austin, the capital. (You can check if that's true, I honestly don't know, that's what they said in the book.) Callie is eleven-going-on-twelve, and worries if she is going to have to be like a "lady"- all fashionable, and doing all the tedious work that ladies do. She spends a lot of time with her grandfather, Walter Tate, and is very interested in science. Calpurnia's a very observant girl, so she has a lot of questions about the world. Her oldest brother, Harry, gives her a notebook to write things down in but she needs someone to discuss those questions with her, and Harry won't do it. Whenever she asks him, he always tells her to go ask Grandfather. Her grandfather, Captain Tate, is a very strict and scary figure, at least to his grandchildren. After contemplating which was better (never knowing the