Roscoe Riley Rules #2: Never Swipe a Bully's Bear Chapter One Welcome to Time-Out Welcome to the Official Roscoe Riley Time-out Corner. It's nice to have some company. Getting stuck in time-out can be awfully boring. Thing is, I got in a teensy bit of trouble. Again. Even though I really, truly didn't mean to. You know, it's hard for a guy like me to keep track of so many rules. So I've started keeping a list. This time I broke rule number 214: Do not kidnap your classmate's teddy bear. And hide him in the dirty clothes basket. Who knew? You've bear-napped before, right? Oh. Bunny-napped? Pig-napped? Kangaroo-napped? Oh. Well, looking back, I guess it does seem like a bad idea. But maybe you'll understand better if I tell you the whole story. . . . Roscoe Riley Rules #2: Never Swipe a Bully's Bear . Copyright © by Katherine Applegate. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from Never Swipe a Bully's Bear by Katherine Applegate, 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.