Kristen Gudsnuk’s Making Friends: Back to the Drawing Board
“I’ve been writing the chronicles of my life.”
“I hate my father.”
From Paula Danziger's The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
“If our Anthony was telling this story, he’d start with the money.”
From Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions
“Wheeeeee!”
From Meika Hashimoto, Gina Loveless, and Genevieve Kote’s Animal Rescue Friends
“As summer wheat came ripe, so did I, born at home, on the kitchen floor.”
From Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust
“Phew, made it!”
From Isabel Roxas’ The Adventures of Team Pom: Squid Happens
“Priyanka!”
From Nidhi Chanani’s Pashmina
“Oh…”
From Mikaël Ross’ The Thud
“Yasmina!”
From Wauter Mannaert’s Chef Yasmina and the Potato Panic
“Willow.”
From Mai K. Nguyen’s Pilu of the Woods
“You need to know a little about me before you hear all the rest of the things I’m going to tell you about my life.”
From Gary Paulsen’s How to Train Your Dad
“A dark and stormy night!”
From Shaenon K. Garrity's The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor
“I love this song.”
From Nidhi Chanani's Jukebox
“Okay, fourth graders.”
From Mike Dawson's Fifth Quarter
“See, it won’t be so bad!”
From Whitney Gardner's Long Distance
First Sentence of a New World 