This is a ready-to-use, custom made novel study for grades 5-8 as they read the 2009 Newbery Honor Book, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly. It includes a 23-page printable student booklet designed to reinforce essential reading, writing, and thinking skills for middle graders. Common Core Standards are supported in the skills and include summarizing, explaining, visualizing, connecting to the text, inferring, citing evidence from the text, general comprehension, understandin