From Mike Holmes’ My Own World
“Gimme back my noodle!”
“It can be dangerous in this city when it’s dark.”
From Jeffrey Brown’s Batman and Robin and Howard
“Hey, Artie.”
From Olivia Stephens’ Artie and the Wolf Moon
“Navigation system?”
From Duane Murray and Shawn Daley’s Better Place
“In the near future, people are totally dependent on technology.”
From Mat Heagerty's Unplugged and Unpopular
“The seventh-grade teachers of Stirling Middle School did not put any thought into the important task of assigning field trip partners.”
From Stacy McAnulty’s Millionaires for the Month
“I’ve been writing the chronicles of my life.”
Kristen Gudsnuk’s Making Friends: Back to the Drawing Board
“I hate my father.”
From Paula Danziger's The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
“If our Anthony was telling this story, he’d start with the money.”
From Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions
“Wheeeeee!”
From Meika Hashimoto, Gina Loveless, and Genevieve Kote’s Animal Rescue Friends
“As summer wheat came ripe, so did I, born at home, on the kitchen floor.”
From Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust
“Phew, made it!”
From Isabel Roxas’ The Adventures of Team Pom: Squid Happens
“Priyanka!”
From Nidhi Chanani’s Pashmina
“Oh…”
From Mikaël Ross’ The Thud
“Yasmina!”
From Wauter Mannaert’s Chef Yasmina and the Potato Panic
First Sentence of a New World 