The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Elya

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, is a VERY scientific and detailed book. I love it and would recommend it to anyone who is willing to ask for a dictionary quite often.

It is about a family of seven children. Her being the only girl... WOW!

She lives with her six brothers, her mother and father, the cook, Viola, SanJuanna, and Grandaddy.

Grandaddy is her father's father, and all of the children are terrified of him (along with Viola and SanJuanna). Soon in the book, when Calpurnia is searching for a specific book that the library would not give her (unless she had five cents which was A LOT at the time, and a note from her mother conforming the permission.), Calpurnia stumbles into Grandaddy, who just happens to have that specific book...

That is how her relationship with Grandaddy starts.

This is an amazing book, and it takes place in the 1800.

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