We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes

We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes - Paperback

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We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes

We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes - Paperback

by Patrick Jennings
$9.99
Sale price  $9.99 Regular price 

Book Overview

Crusher the snake will charm readers in this entertaining, funny novel about a snake in captivity and how she turns the tables on her human captor.

I am a snake.

No, not a rattlesnake. I just look like one. I'm a gopher snake.

One day an oily, filthy, fleshy human child crossed my path. As luck would have it, he knew the difference between a gopher snake and a rattlesnake. He has imprisoned me in a terrarium. His name is Gunnar. He calls me Crusher. He thinks I'm male. I'm not.

He dropped in a dead mouse and hoped I'd eat it. I buried it. He then dropped in a live one, which he called "Breakfast." I didn't lay a coil on it.

Gunnar thinks I'll be his adoring pet. He's wrong.

In fact, I am planning my escape. I may take breakfast with me.

Back Jacket

I am a snake.

No, not a rattlesnake. I just look like one. I'm a gopher snake.

One day an oily, filthy, fleshy human child crossed my path. As luck would have it, he knew the difference between a gopher snake and a rattlesnake. He has imprisoned me in a terrarium. His name is Gunnar. He calls me Crusher. He thinks I'm male. I'm not.

He dropped in a dead mouse and hoped I'd eat it. I buried it. He then dropped in a live one, which he called "Breakfast." I didn't lay a coil on it.

Gunnar thinks I'll be his adoring pet. He's wrong.

In fact, I am planning my escape. I may take Breakfast with me.

Crusher will charm readers in this entertaining, clever novel about a snake in captivity and how she turns the tables on her human captor.

ISBN9780060821173
Author Patrick Jennings
PublisherHarperCollins
GenreChildren, Education, and Hobbies & interests
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids and Teens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Patrick Jennings

Patrick Jennings blasted onto the children's book scene with his critically acclaimed "Faith and the Electric Dogs," which received numerous starred reviews and is now in film development." Guinea Dog" was called "a very funny book...would be particularly great for fifth-grade boys." by wired.com. Now that his children are middle-grade age, he has turned his focus to writing funny, easily accessible stories that will appeal to middle-schoolers. A former resident of Bisbee, Arizona, Jennings now lives in Washington State.

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