From Bruce Coville's The Monster's Ring
“Russell Crannaker looked up and down the alley.”
“‘Not even here in this place of ghosts and demons and half-formed things!’ bellowed the wild-eyed sky pirate captain, his voice cracking as he struggled to make himself heard above the screaming wind.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Clash of the Sky Galleons
“You are almost at the end of your journey.”
From Emma Steinkellner's The Okay Witch and the Hungry Shadow
“My name is Wyatt Palmer.”
From Dave Barry's The Worst Night Ever
“It had been three days since my friend disappeared and I was starting to think the worst might have happened.”
From James Patterson’s Ali Cross
“Okay, Art Club!”
From Chad Sell's Doodleville
“The academic, in his grubby, paint-splattered robes of faded ‘viaduct’ blue, turned the crank lever with his free hand.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Winter Knights
“Oh, my gods, it’s my first night in the Fourth Cohort barracks!”
From Rick Riordan's Camp Jupiter Classified
“Lucy, we did so well in the last game!”
From Jeffrey Brown's Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: The Stone Cold Age
“Mwaaah-hah-hahah-haaaaaa!!!”
From Emma Steinkellner's The Okay Witch
“What are we going to do?”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Freeglader
“Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.”
From Rick Riordan's Demigods & Magicians
“Henry Huggins’s dog Ribsy was a plain ordinary city dog, the kind of dog that strangers usually called Mutt or Pooch.”
From Beverly Cleary's Ribsy
“Nadia did a slow spin in front of her bedroom mirror.”
From Bassem Youssef and Catherine R. Daly's The Magical Reality of Nadia
“It was cold in the great chamber; bitter cold.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Vox
First Sentence of a New World 