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== The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly, Newbery Award Honor Book 2009

== published by Henry Holt and Company, ISBN: 978-0-8050-8841-0, Ages: 10 and up.

''This book is set in the year, 1899, in the Hill Country of Texas. Calpurnia Tate is eleven years old and the only girl in her family. She has six brothers. Calpurnia discovers that she and her grandfather share an interest in nature and science. They begin to study and converse about the natural world. Calpurnia and her grandfather form a bond that none of her brothers' share. "What's so great about Callie is that she is different because she has been cared for and nurtured by a grandfather that treats her not just as a girl with intelligence. but as an equal."

The author, Jacqueline Kelly, is a native New Zealander, who grew up in Canada. Ms.Kelly currently resides in Austin and Fentress Texas.The love of science is something that she and her fictional character, Calpurnia, have in common. Ms.Kelly is a practicing physician. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate is Jacqueline Kelly's debut novel.