Download or read book The Serpent Came to Gloucester written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text tells of a sea serpent that played off the coast of Massachusetts the summer of 1817, but when adventure seekers came from miles around to study the serpent and aggressively hunt it down, the creature eluded capture and remains a mystery even today.