From Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward
“Okay, so when you’ve just moved to a new town and are still a total outsider…”
“Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.”
From Gary Paulsen's Hatchet
“Samantha Taylor!”
From Kim Dwinell's Surfside Girls: The Secret of Danger Point
“Ali Cross, where are you???”
From James Patterson's Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son
“I was in fifth-period science class when I heard these noises outside.”
From Rick Riordan's The Demigod Files
“Lucy and Andy live in a cave with their mom and dad and little brother, Danny.”
From Jeffrey Brown's Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones
“Teresa dribbled past me, switching hands as I’d taught her.”
From S. A. Bodeen's The Compound
“Kitty lives in a barn.”
From Meika Hashimoto’s Kitty and Dragon
“Here in Sueño Bay, Robertson Island, it rains over two hundred days a year.”
From Mike and Nancy Deas’ Sueño Bay Adventures: Shadow Island
First Sentence of a New World 