From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Winter Knights
“The academic, in his grubby, paint-splattered robes of faded ‘viaduct’ blue, turned the crank lever with his free hand.”
“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
“Freedom!”
From Remy Lai's Pawcasso
“The young under-librarian awoke drenched in sweat.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
“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
“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
“Out in the vast cloudscape, a lone sky ship in full sail cut through the thin air.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
First Sentence of a New World 