The Great Stone Face Book Club meets once a month to discuss one of this year’s nominees for the Great Stone Face award. The group is open to kids in grades 4 to 6. Our next meeting is on Wednesday, October 14th at 3:30 PM. We will be discussing We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings.
Crusher, the gopher snake who tells this tale, is captured by an insensitive boy, Gunnar, who has several other reptiles in his bedroom. Through telepathy the snake communicates with the others and they tell her that the boy will soon tire of her and the only escape is death, but she is determined to get out alive. Crusher decides to play “tame” and win over her captor but she also decides to go on a hunger strike and not eat the live mouse that Gunnar has put in her cage. Crusher eventually becomes friends with Breakfast, the mouse, and starts to have sympathy for his captor, Gunnar.
Booktalk source: Great Stone Face Committee 2009-10.
For more information or to obtain a copy of the book for discussion, contact Amy Graves at 624-6550 ext. 328 or agraves@manchesternh.gov.
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