From Margaret Peterson Haddix's Running Out of Time
“The light woke Jessie, though it was just a glimmer downstairs.”
“In the Vaults of the Manuscriptorium, The Live Plan of What Lies Beneath was unrolled on a large table.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Fyre
“Twig sat on the floor between his mother’s knees, and curled his toes in the thick fleece of the tilder rug.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Beyond the Deepwoods
“Hey, don’t touch that!”
From Steve Behling’s The Pirate Angel, the Taking Tree, and Captain Rabbit
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“In the last days of Narnia, far up to the west beyond Lantern Waste and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an ape.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle
“Lucy Gringe found the last space on the dawn Port barge.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Darke
“Hey, Zoe!”
From Maria Scrivan's Forget Me Nat
“Nicholas Vargas had imagined a panoply of terrible punishments his dad might impose after he’d stayed out all night with Jules and Laurie.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wyrm King
“You’ve probably never heard of Vincenzo Perugia.”
From Frank Cottrell Boyce's Framed
“Roy would not have noticed the strange boy if it weren’t for Dana Matherson, because Roy ordinarily didn’t look out the window of the school bus.”
From Carl Hiaasen’s Hoot
“It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
“Mom?”
From Raina Telgemeier's Guts
“One morning I was arguing with the adult in charge of me.”
From Lemony Snicket's File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
“Don’t step in the blood.”
From Gary Paulsen's Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat
First Sentence of a New World 