We Can't All be Rattlesnakes

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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. Im 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 Im male. Im not.

He dropped in a dead mouse and hoped Id eat it. I buried it. He then dropped in a live one, which he called Breakfast. I didnt lay a coil on it.

Gunnar thinks Ill be his adoring pet. Hes wrong.

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

Author Bio

Patrick Jennings grew up in a small town in Indiana, where there were no wild, lethally venomous snakes. His family then moved to rural Arizona, where lived many, including seventeen varieties of rattlesnake. Patrick got seriously freaked out. He now lives on the Olympic Peninsula, where there are scarcely any wild, lethally venomous snakes. We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes is his fourteenth book for young readers.