From Elana K. Arnold’s A Boy Called Bat
“Bixby Alexander Tam stared into the refrigerator, trying to decide what to eat.”
“Michael spoke against the wind, to a girl named Tanya.”
From James Dashner's The Mortality Doctrine: The Eye of Minds
“Ssssss.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: Final Warning
“I believe in sweat equity.”
From Chip Gaines' No Pain, No Gaines
“But the workmen swore the repairs to the house would be finished by now!”
From Maryrose Wood’s The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery
“The outside.”
From Lex Thomas' Quarantine: The Saints
“Humans have it all wrong about aliens.”
From Carlie Sorosiak's Leonard (My Life As a Cat)
“When traveling through Washington, DC, one expects to see a few snakes in human clothing.”
From Rick Riordan’s The Trials of Apollo: The Tower of Nero
“‘We would not be in this deplorable situation,’ declares the younger and taller of the two men in the small club-room, ‘if you had not tried to bully her into boarding school!'”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
“The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: On the Banks of Plum Creek
“Most flight regulations do not allow children to fly planes on transatlantic routes.”
From Eoin Colfer’s The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges
“‘All right, you,’ a voice said.”
From Maureen Johnson's Hello, Cruel Heart
“Nobody likes getting punched in the face.”
From Kwame Mbalia’s Tristan Strong Destroys the World
“‘Lay off the freaking horn!’ I said, rubbing my forehead.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
“I would very much like to know why my mother named me “Enola,” which, backwards, spells alone.”
From Nancy Springer’s The Case of the Missing Marquess
First Sentence of a New World 