Attribution
Jacqueline KellyPublication Details
Book1st edHenry Holt and Co2009Availability
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Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Nature — Juvenile fiction
- Family — Texas — Juvenile fiction
- Grandfathers — Juvenile fiction
- Naturalists — Juvenile fiction
- Nature — Fiction
- Family life — Texas — Fiction
- Grandfathers — Fiction
- Naturalists — Fiction
- Texas — History — 19th century — Juvenile fiction
- Texas — History — 19th century — Fiction
Notes
- In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery
- A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN
- 9780805088410
- 0805088415
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