From Jude Watson's Sting
“March McQuin didn’t think he’d ever be in this position again — upside down and dangling twenty feet over a store floor at three o’clock in the morning.”
“I stood at the bottom of the driveway in my pajamas with a serious case of bed head.”
From Allan Woodrow’s The Pet War
“A bright red plastic chair sat in the hallway outside the door of the principal’s office.”
From Andrew Clements' The Losers Club
“Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness of the sea, the German submarines arrived in the middle of the night.”
From Theodore Taylor's The Cay
“None of this stuff would have happened if I hadn’t been sitting next to Matthew Diaz.”
From Dave Barry's The Worst Class Trip Ever
“Noonday sun now.”
From Julia Billet's Catherine's War
“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
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