Don't swap your sweater for a dog

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 antics-after 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 (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Roscoe Riley Rules #3: Don't Swap Your Sweater for a Dog Chapter One Welcome to Time-Out Hey! Want to play? Oops. I mean, want to play when I'm done with time-out? I sort of kind of got in some trouble again. 'Cause I sort of kind of borrowed somebody's dog. I only borrowed him so I could win a trophy. A shiny, sparkly, silver trophy. You've probably borrowed a dog before, right? A cat? A gerbil? A tarantula? Oh. Well, I had my reasons. It's a long story, actually. Usually when I end up in time-out, there's a long story to tell. And since you're here anyway, I'll bet you'd like to hear it. . . . Roscoe Riley Rules #3: Don't Swap Your Sweater for a Dog . Copyright © by Katherine Applegate. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from Don't Swap Your Sweater for a Dog by Katherine Applegate All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.