Skunked! Calpurnia Tate: Girl Vet "Young readers will find Cal and Travis's exploits entertaining, humorous, and informative." -- School Library Journal , starred review "Expect a fresh crop of Calpurnia readers to simply enjoy this on its own considerable merits." -- Booklist The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate : "Animal lovers will revel in the abundant anecdotes about the benevolent country vet and Travis' mangy strays-some heart-wrenching, some hilarious-while learning plenty about nature . A warm, welcome stand-alone companion to Kelly's lauded debut." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Well worth waiting for . Readers will flock to this sequel for the pleasure of revisiting this beloved character and her world." -- Booklist, starred review "Six years after debuting in Kelly's Newbery Honor-winning The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate , the budding Texas scientist returns, as curious and charming as ever, and now preoccupied with fauna instead of flora." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate: " The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate is the most delightful historical novel for tweens in many, many years.
Callie's struggles to find a place in the world where she'll be encouraged in the gawky joys of intellectual curiosity are fresh, funny, and poignant today." -- The New Yorker, "Book Bench" section "In her debut novel, Jacqueline Kelly brings to vivid life a boisterous small-town family at the dawn of a new century. And she especially shines in her depiction of the natural world that so intrigues Callie . Readers will want to crank up the A.C. before cracking the cover, though. That first chapter packs a lot of summer heat." -- The Washington Post on The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate "Each chapter of this winning .
novel opens with a quotation from 'On the Origin of Species'--a forbidden book that her own grandfather turns out to have hidden away. Together they study Darwin's masterpiece, leading to a revolution in Callie's ideas of what she might accomplish on her own." -- New York Times Book Review on The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.