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

Author

Katherine Applegate

Illustrator

Brian Biggs

Publication Date

May 27, 2008

Genre / Grade Band

Fiction / 2^nd − 3^rd

Language

English

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

Paperback

Hardcover

Description

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.

Publication date

May 27, 2008

Genre

Fiction

ISBN-13

9780061148828

Lexile Measure

550

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

HarperCollins

Series

Roscoe Riley Rules

BISAC categories

Library of Congress categories

Humorous stories
Schools
Helpfulness
Glue
Riley, Roscoe (Fictitious character)

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

Katherine Applegate

Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award

Honor Book 2009 - 2009

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