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Violence
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No violence
Language
None
Period language; clean
Sexual Content
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No sexual content
Substance Use
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No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of gender, science, and the gentle grief of limited horizons
What this book is about
Eleven-year-old Calpurnia Virginia Tate lives in central Texas in the last year of the nineteenth century with her six brothers, her stern mother, and her eccentric grandfather — a naturalist who introduces her to Darwin and the scientific method. Kelly's debut is wise, funny, and quietly feminist about the possibilities and limits of a girl's life at the century's turn.
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