From Elana K. Arnold’s Just Harriet
“My name is Harriet Wermer.”
“Matt says I could see the majestic beauty of the American Southeast if I’d bother to glance out the window.”
From Gordon Korman's Unplugged
“We were on our way to Dad’s house and Mom was driving with both hands clamped tightly around the wheel as if she had me by the neck.”
From Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza Loses Control
“Greetings, initiate!”
From Rick Riordan's Brooklyn House Magician's Manual
“Okay, so when you’ve just moved to a new town and are still a total outsider…”
From Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward
“Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.”
From Gary Paulsen's Hatchet
“Samantha Taylor!”
From Kim Dwinell's Surfside Girls: The Secret of Danger Point
“Ali Cross, where are you???”
From James Patterson's Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son
“I was in fifth-period science class when I heard these noises outside.”
From Rick Riordan's The Demigod Files
“Lucy and Andy live in a cave with their mom and dad and little brother, Danny.”
From Jeffrey Brown's Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones
“Teresa dribbled past me, switching hands as I’d taught her.”
From S. A. Bodeen's The Compound
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“I emerge from the simulation with a yell.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Four
“To be honest, I’m not great with words, so I wasn’t keen on writing anything for this book.”
From Rick Riordan‘s Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the Norse Worlds
“Big Ed is about to tell it again.”
From Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
First Sentence of a New World 