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."

 

There are 121 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Patrick Jennings is the author of several children's books , including The Beastly Arms. Matthew Cordell is the illustrator of Trouble Gum and Like Pickle on a Cookie