- Nature, Family life, Fiction, Grandfathers
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.
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Classical in form, warm, intimate and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Jacqueline Kelly
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Henry Holt and Co., SCHOLASTIC
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780805088410
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