Raina refuses to ride in her mom’s car until the snake is found. The snake gets loose in the car, and the family can’t find it. However, the snake refuses to eat frozen mice, and one day, after nearly biting Amara’s finger off, Amara and her mom decide to return the snake.

Amara complains that this arrangement is unfair as Raina gets her own room and as a consolation, Amara gets that pet snake she wanted. The family doesn’t move out of the apartment but instead gives Raina a bedroom to herself, the smallest bedroom, and Amara and Will share the master bedroom, while the parents sleep on a pullout couch in the living room. Moreover, the three siblings have to share a room, and their parents soon decide that this arrangement won’t work. The family no longer feels like they need a pet. Soon after, Will, their baby brother, is born. However, the crickets in the chameleon’s cage that are kept as food for the chameleon end up eating the chameleon instead!Īmara wants a pet snake but Raina plainly refuses because of her past experience of stepping on a dead snake. Three fishes die, and when the family realizes fishes are too sensitive, they get a chameleon. However, when they do finally end up getting pets, everything that can possibly go wrong, does. Raina and her sister, Amara, have always wanted pets. This book goes between “present time” and flashbacks a lot which may seem confusing but the flashbacks are illustrated on yellow paper and they are there at the most appropriate of times.

Raina Telgemeier also shows the feelings that involve four people living in an apartment, who are soon joined by a baby. I felt that this book perfectly shows the relationship between siblings and how their interactions affect their whole family.

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