Her cranky older cousin Aggie, living with the Tates until her parents rebuild their home, teaches Calpurnia how to type, how to salt money away in a bank, and most stunningly, how to deceive and rebel against parents. Her luck changes unexpectedly when the epic hurricane that levels the city of Galveston blows into her life a pair of survivors, who nudge Calpurnia closer to her dream.
As she presses her parents for further education and broader opportunities, though, it becomes apparent that the deck is stacked against ambitious women striving to enter “men’s” professions. Under his tutelage, the thirteen-year-old truly sees herself aiming for a career in science. Ever since she and her naturalist grandfather discovered a new species of vetch (in The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, BCCB 7/09), their relationship has deepened into true friendship, and Calpurnia alone among the grandchildren has earned his affection and respect. Pritzker treating a horse’s abscessed foot: “A great gout of foul-smelling black fluid erupted from the hoof it fountained all the way across the stall and splattered on the far wall, missing us by inches.”įrom the July/August 2015 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.A new century has just arrived, and 1900 seems to promise Calpurnia Tate a host of fresh possibilities. A thought-provoking and engaging read, if not for those with delicate constitutions here’s Dr. Gender discrimination that when eventually Callie stops weeping over “the hard fact of being a half citizen in my own home” and determines to find a way to fulfill her ambition, it’s both believable and cheer-worthy. Kelly seeds the story with enough small, stinging incidents of Pritzker, the work is “too much for a lady,” and Callie’s conventional parents can’t imagine sending a mere girl to veterinary college. When the hurricane brings refugees to town, including a veterinarian, Callie discovers her vocation but, says Dr. But the fuel is Callie’s growing understanding of herself as a young woman of intellect and ability in a world that isn’t ready for her. The glue that holds it together is one-year-younger brother Travis’s heartwarming search for a pet (and since he’s looking for stray-animal love in all the wrong places - an armadillo? a raccoon? baby blue jays? - it also provides some comic relief ). 9/09), this sequel is episodic, punctuated by birthdays and holidays and major events such as the September 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston. Like The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (rev. Kelly quickly fills readers in on essential background (only girl in the family, with six brothers Callie’s avid pursuit of nature studies with formidable Granddaddy - check) before diving in to chronicle Callie’s thirteenth year. Kelly returns to turn-of-the-last-century small-town central Texas to continue the story of nascent scientist Callie Vee.
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