She accidentally falls into a relationship with her curmudgeonly, live-in grandfather and the discovery that she wants to be a scientist, not a debutante.
It is 1899 and twelve-year-old Callie feels like she doesn’t fit her life. The setting, the main character, the characters around her, and the set-up: Calpurnia Tate, also known as Callie Vee, is the only daughter (surrounded by brothers) of a prominent, wealthy family (which owns the town’s cotton gin) in a smallish, Texas town. The first book starts out immediately charming the reader. Perhaps she’ll come back to them as an adult, because as a grown-up who enjoys children’s literature and YA, I found these to be super charming. These two books- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly-have been sitting on my daughter’s shelf for a while, and I think that she’s just about outgrown them before she even got to read them.
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