From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Sunny Side Up
“Sunny!”
“I guess Mom was pretty proud of herself for making me write in that journal last year, because now she went and bought me another one.”
From Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
“Stop it!”
From Mari Mancusi’s Dangerous Secrets: The Story of Iduna and Agnarr
“I just wanted to have a friend.”
From Bruce Coville's I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.”
From E. L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Nothing ever happens in Antler, Texas.”
From Kimberly Willis Holt's When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
“Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town.”
From Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy
“The great vaulted entrance-hall to the Palace of Shadows was silent save for the hiss of the wind and the soft, yet echoing footfall of the immense insect-like creature that teetered unsteadily across the marble floor.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Curse of the Gloamglozer
“Sixth grade!”
From Varian Johnson's Twins
“‘Where’s Papa going with that ax?’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.”
From E. B. White's Charlotte's Web
“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.”
From Jude Watson's Sting
“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
First Sentence of a New World 