From Andrew Clements' Frindle
“If you asked the kids and the teachers at Lincoln Elementary School to make three lists–all the really bad kids, all the really smart kids, and all the really good kids–Nick Allen would not be on any of them.”
“A bright red plastic chair sat in the hallway outside the door of the principal’s office.”
From Andrew Clements' The Losers Club
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“Flying from Chicago to Boston by myself hasn’t been as big a deal as my dad said it was going to be.”
From Andrew Clements' The Friendship War
First Sentence of a New World 