Interest Level
Grades K - 3
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 3.9
Lexile Measure®: Not Available
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: Not Available
Genre
- Comedy and Humor
Theme/Subject
- Kindness and Compassion
- Loyalty
- Friends and Friendship
About This Book
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.
About the Authors or Illustrators
Patrick Jennings is the critically acclaimed author of children's novels. His first book, Faith and the Electric Dogs, became a Booklist Editors' Choice and a Texas Bluebonnet Master List selection.
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