![]() In this oppressive atmosphere, eleven-year-old Calpurnia Tate is struggling to become all that a brilliant young woman can be. There was a full day’s work to be done before noon, when the deadly heat drove everyone back into our big shuttered house nd we lay down in the dim high-ceilinged rooms like sweating victims” (p. We lit our kerosene lamps and carried them before us in the dark like our own tiny wavering suns. ![]() It’s 1899 in the small Texas town of Fentress, and it’s extraordinarily hot: “We arose in the dark, hours before sunrise, when there was barely a smidge of indigo along the eastern sky and the rest of the horizon was still pure pitch. ![]() Genre: Young adult novel, historical fiction ![]() New York: Henry Holt and Company, 338 pages The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline KellyĢ009. ![]()
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