From Jason Platt's Middle School Misadventures
“My name is Newell.”
“Wake up, Hilda, it’s almost time to get off the train.”
From Matilda Nordtvedt's Song of the Brook
“Ryan.”
From David Bell's The Request
“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
“My story starts with a dream.”
From Aaron Reynolds' The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter
“‘Okay, Danny, we’re ready to go live in thirty seconds.'”
From Trent Reedy's Divided We Fall: The Last Full Measure
“After my reconciliation with my brothers in the summer of 1889, I spent August quite happily with Reginold Collie, visiting Ferndale, my childhood home in the country.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche
“The next morning I got ready for school…”
From Maria Scrivan's Nat Enough
“Snorri Snorrelssen guided her trading barge up the quiet waters of the river toward the Castle.”
Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Physik
“It was an afternoon in late September.”
From Richard and Florence Atwater's Mr. Popper's Penguins
“This is the story of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him.”
From C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy
“Snake River Middle School.”
From Mike Thayer's The Double Life of Danny Day
“5:12.”
From James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet's Maximum Ride: Hawk
“Katya!”
From Jared Cullum's Kodi
“There was a downside to staying in a luxurious high-rise suite in Las Vegas.”
From S. J. Kincaid's Insignia: Catalyst
First Sentence of a New World 