From Julia Billet's Catherine's War
“Noonday sun now.”
“Out in the vast cloudscape, a lone sky ship in full sail cut through the thin air.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
“I want a refund from ancestry.com.”
From Gordon Korman's Ungifted
“My name is Moon.”
From Eoin Colfer's Half Moon Investigations
“Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow.”
From Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon
“The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of bubble gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.”
From Carl Hiaasen's Flush
“Lisa is pregnant.”
From Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It
“I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one.”
From Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
“Keith, the boy in the rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered Room 215 of the Mountain View Inn.”
From Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle
“Hmm…”
From Lucy Knisley's Stepping Stones
“It was midday and Undertown was bustling.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Stormchaser
“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
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