From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Stormchaser
“It was midday and Undertown was bustling.”
“Have you ever done something extremely stupid like, oh, I don’t know, try to make a room filled with total strangers laugh until their sides hurt?”
From James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein's I Funny
“The light woke Jessie, though it was just a glimmer downstairs.”
From Margaret Peterson Haddix's Running Out of Time
“In the Vaults of the Manuscriptorium, The Live Plan of What Lies Beneath was unrolled on a large table.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Fyre
“Lying down, shivering on the last seat of school bus 161, pinned by his teensy doggie gaze, which is completely 100% cute—I’m such a girl, I know—I say, ‘You won’t believe the bull I had to endure today.”
From Matthew Quick's Sorta Like a Rockstar
“Twig sat on the floor between his mother’s knees, and curled his toes in the thick fleece of the tilder rug.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Beyond the Deepwoods
“Hey, don’t touch that!”
From Steve Behling’s The Pirate Angel, the Taking Tree, and Captain Rabbit
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“In the last days of Narnia, far up to the west beyond Lantern Waste and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an ape.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle
“Lucy Gringe found the last space on the dawn Port barge.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Darke
“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
First Sentence of a New World 