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In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior."

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Main Author: Kelly, Jacqueline (Author)
Other Authors: Meyer, Jennifer L. (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Kelly, Jacqueline. Calpurnia Tate, girl vet ; 2.
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Summary:In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior."
Physical Description:104 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9781627798709
1627798706
9781250129451
Author Notes:Jacqueline Kelly won the Newbery Honor for her first book, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. She was born in New Zealand and raised in Canada, in the dense rainforests of Vancouver Island. Her family then moved to El Paso, Texas, and Kelly attended college in El Paso, then went on to medical school in Galveston. After practicing medicine for many years, she went to law school at the University of Texas, and after several years of law practice, realized she wanted to write fiction. Her first story was published in the Mississippi Review in 2001. She now makes her home with her husband and various cats and dogs in Austin and Fentress, Texas.