From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Darke
“Lucy Gringe found the last space on the dawn Port barge.”
“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
From Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Hey, Zoe!”
From Maria Scrivan's Forget Me Nat
“Nicholas Vargas had imagined a panoply of terrible punishments his dad might impose after he’d stayed out all night with Jules and Laurie.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wyrm King
“They are too fast!”
From Jason Platt's Middle School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist
“You’ve probably never heard of Vincenzo Perugia.”
From Frank Cottrell Boyce's Framed
“Roy would not have noticed the strange boy if it weren’t for Dana Matherson, because Roy ordinarily didn’t look out the window of the school bus.”
From Carl Hiaasen’s Hoot
“It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
“Mom?”
From Raina Telgemeier's Guts
“One morning I was arguing with the adult in charge of me.”
From Lemony Snicket's File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
“Don’t step in the blood.”
From Gary Paulsen's Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat
“Septimus Heap, ExtraOrdinary Apprentice, was woken up by his House Mouse leaving a note on his pillow.”
Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Syren
“I have just returned from the school dance and lived to tell the tale.”
From Aaron Reynolds’ The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter: Narwhal I’m Around
“Okay…”
From Benjamin Renner's The Big Bad Fox
“Nicholas Vargas had never been all that good at sports.”
Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: A Giant Problem
First Sentence of a New World 