When she is not tramping and trapping with Granddaddy, Callie finds herself sadly incapable at the skills her mom so desperately tries to teach her. Soon Callie is spending most of her time with Granddaddy, catching specimens of wildlife for his collection and learning about natural sciences at his side. This begins an easy sort of friendship between granddaughter and grandfather. An imposing and distant figure, Callie must work up her courage to ask him about her grasshopper conundrum and relay her own theory about why the grasshoppers around the house are two different sizes. Little does she know that there is a copy in her very own house in the personal library of her Granddaddy. After a disastrous encounter with a lady librarian, Callie is forced to search for the illicit book elsewhere. One day, noticing two different types of grasshoppers in the lawn around the house, Callie finally decides to find a copy of Charles Darwin's infamous book The Origin of Species. She would much rather swim in the river near her family's pecan plantation just outside the tiny town of Fentress, Texas than learn to cook, knit, and play the piano. In the summer of 1899, Calpurnia Virginia Tate is about to turn twelve and worries about the adult responsibilities that loom on the horizon. It is the story of a young girl growing up in Texas. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate is a 2009 historical young adult novel by Jacqueline Kelly that received a 2010 Newbery Honor Award. 2009 historical young adult novel by Jacqueline Kelly
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