Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs (Roscoe Riley Rules #1)

by Katherine Applegate (Author) Brian Biggs (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

When his classmates can't sit still for a big performance at school, Roscoe Riley takes matters into his own hands with a liberal dose of Super-Mega-Gonzo Glue--which his mom calls the don't-you-dare glue because Roscoe isn't supposed to use it.

Roscoe doesn't mean to break the rules--he just can't help himself! After all, his teacher's job might be at stake and desperate times call for desperate measures.


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School Library Journal

Gr 1-2 These early chapter books begin and end in the time-out chair. In "Friends", Roscoe's first-grade class is getting ready for open house. It's supposed to involve a performance of singing bumblebees followed by dessert. However, add one hyper, trouble-finding boy (Roscoe) with a tube of Super-Mega-Gonzo Glue and too many bright ideas and you've got a recipe for disaster. In "Sweater", Roscoe trades an itchy sweater that his grandmother made him for his neighbor's dog so he can enter the animal in a pet show. The protagonist always means well and the adults can usually see a big heart behind his anticsafter they've calmed down a bit. Both stories are fun reads with simple and amusing cartoon illustrations. Good choices for children transitioning from beginning readers to chapter books. - Kelly Roth, Bartow County Public Library, Cartersville, GA 

Copyright 2008 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Classification
-
ISBN-13
9780062392480
Lexile Measure
550
Guided Reading Level
N
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication date
February 02, 2016
Series
Roscoe Riley Rules
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV001000 - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
JUV035000 - Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
JUV045000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Chapter Books
Library of Congress categories
Humorous stories
Schools
Helpfulness
Glue
Riley, Roscoe (Fictitious character)
Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award
Honor Book 2009 - 2009

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