From Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord
“It was autumn in Venice when Victor first heard of Prosper and Bo.”
“My life in Taiwan is sweet.”
From Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu's Measuring Up
“Kitty lives in a barn.”
From Meika Hashimoto’s Kitty and Dragon
“The eerie, booming call of the steam klaxon reverberated through the cabin, wrenching the dozen snoring phraxminers from their sleep.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Immortals
“Here in Sueño Bay, Robertson Island, it rains over two hundred days a year.”
From Mike and Nancy Deas’ Sueño Bay Adventures: Shadow Island
“Standing outside of St. Julia Child Elementary and Middle School, I choked on the stink.”
From Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic’s The League of Picky Eaters
“Most everyone in Utah remembers 1896 as the year the territory became a state.”
From John D. Fitzgerald's The Great Brain
“All children, except one, grow up.”
From J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
“‘That slowpoke Sarah!’ Henny cried.”
From Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family
“Russell Crannaker looked up and down the alley.”
From Bruce Coville's The Monster's Ring
“I wore a hat with a feather plume the first time I met Sherlock Holmes.”
From Heather W. Petty's Lock & Mori
“When a plan came from Griffin Bing, even the tiniest detail had to be perfect.”
From Gordon Korman's Swindle
“‘Not even here in this place of ghosts and demons and half-formed things!’ bellowed the wild-eyed sky pirate captain, his voice cracking as he struggled to make himself heard above the screaming wind.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Clash of the Sky Galleons
“You are almost at the end of your journey.”
From Emma Steinkellner's The Okay Witch and the Hungry Shadow
“Christine, your collar was undone the whole time!”
From Jen Wang's Stargazing
First Sentence of a New World 