From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Vox
“Freedom!”
From Remy Lai's Pawcasso
“Harry has been to day care before.”
Emily Jenkins’ Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School
“Jackson Jones peered through his binoculars at the horizon.”
From Michael Buckley's NERDS: National Espionage Rescue and Defense Society
“The problem with smart people is this: They can be really stupid 95 percent of the time.”
From Gordon Korman’s Supergifted
“My einherjar have a saying: Some days you are the ax, some days you are the decapitated head.”
From Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: 9 from the Nine Worlds
“Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.”
From Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
“You’d have to be nuts to trust a magician.”
From Paul Griffin's When Friendship Followed Me Home
“The young under-librarian awoke drenched in sweat.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
“Sunny!”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Sunny Side Up
“I guess Mom was pretty proud of herself for making me write in that journal last year, because now she went and bought me another one.”
From Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
“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
“Nothing ever happens in Antler, Texas.”
From Kimberly Willis Holt's When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
“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
“Sixth grade!”
From Varian Johnson's Twins