We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings

We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings

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We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings

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.

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ISBN 13 9780060821142
ISBN 10 0060821140
Title We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes
Author Patrick Jennings
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Publisher Harpercoll
Year published 2009-01-06
Number of pages 128
Prizes Short-listed for Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2011, Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Children's) 2011, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2011, Short-listed for Great Stone Face Book Award 2009, Short-listed for Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Grades 3-5) 2012
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