From Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
“This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week.”
“Now is the time in our interview when you can ask any nagging questions you might have for us.”
From Adrianne Finlay's Cut Off
“Flora Belle Buckman was in her room at her desk.”
From Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses
“Tom is getting water from the well.”
From Josh Malerman's Malorie
“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.”
From Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“People often say that humans don’t adopt cats; it’s more a case of them adopting us.”
From James Bowen's The Little Book of Bob
“If my kids had been with me, it wouldn’t have happened.”
From Heather Chavez's No Bad Deed
“A tracer round sliced a bright red streak through the black night in front of me.”
From Trent Reedy’s Divided We Fall: Burning Nation
“A bank robbery.”
From Fredrik Backman's Anxious People
“The longest day of my life began tardily.”
From John Green's Paper Towns
“My wife, Megan, wrote an e-vite to our dinner party that was like Megan herself: funny, sharp, and a touch mysterious.”
From James Patterson and Richard DiLallo's The Store
“Although I’d realized six or eight weeks ago that I was crazy about Tina Zabinski and I wanted to go on a date with her the same way I want to keep converting oxygen into carbon dioxide, I’d been playing it cool, taking it slow.”
From Gary Paulsen's Crush
“The dark blue Jaguar XJ Sentinel looked no different from the other cars that surrounded it as it swept around Buckingham Palace and continued through St James’s Park.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Nightshade
“It was not Miss Penelope Lumley‘s first journey on a train, but it was the first one she had taken alone.”
From Maryrose Wood's The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling
“Thank you, Lord, for letting me see a purpose for my life.”
From Camille Regholec's The Secret Way to the Heart
First Sentence of a New World 