"Advice for kids on how to choose and care for a pet snake, including housing, diet, and keeping snakes healthy"--Provided by publisher.

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of boa constrictors.

Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Their only hope: find an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon.

After searching the swamp for snakes, Ryan, Stephen, and Heather cannot believe their eyes when they find poisonous pythons in their Pennsylvania swamp.

Twelve-year-old Nellie Tibbits and her herpetologist mother have been in Bog Hollow for a month, but most of the other children regard Nellie as a weird Northerner; however her pet corn snake wins the friendship of Daryl Tate, who is as obsessed with snakes as his grandmother is with stray cats, and when one of the cats disappears Nellie joins the Bog Hollow boys in the search--and hatches a plan to help get Granny Tate's strays adopted.

An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life.