Roscoe Riley Rules #4: Never Swim in Applesauce by Katherine Applegate

Author:Katherine Applegate
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories, Chapter Books, School & Education, Readers
ISBN: 9780061971617
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-10-06T05:00:00+00:00

8

The Amazing Apple

I took a swing at that humongous apple and missed by a mile.

Then Wyatt saw it too.

“It’s the hugest apple on the planet!” Wyatt cried.

“It’s my apple!” I said.

“Not if I’m the one who picks it!” he said.

We both swung our sticks at that gigantic apple.

And we both missed.

We swung again.

Crack! Our sticks hit with a loud whack.

“Boys,” Ms. Diz warned, “careful with the sticks!”

“It’s just one apple, you know,” Emma said. “There are hundreds of apples on this tree.”

“It’s a super apple!” I corrected.

“It’s Gigantor, the Killer Apple from Outer Space!” Wyatt added.

“Wow,” Gus said. “It looks like a basketball!”

I swung and missed again.

“Guys,” Emma said, “our basket is only half full. Everybody else has a ton of apples.”

“But they don’t have the Awesome, Amazing Super Apple!” Wyatt said.

He swung again and missed.

I had an idea.

“Gus,” I said. “Come here. It’s time for a ladder.”

“We don’t have a ladder,” Gus pointed out.

“I’ll be the ladder,” I said.

I got down on my hands and knees.

“Oh.” Gus grinned. “I get it.”

Gus climbed up on my back. He used his stick for balance.

“Ow,” I said. “Ow, ow, ow. Hurry, Gus. Your ladder can’t take much more of this.”

Whack! Whack! Whack!

Gus kept missing. “Keep still. It’s hard to balance when your ladder keeps breathing,” he complained.

“Hey, it’s cheating if you have to step on a friend,” Wyatt said.

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