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.”
“Mmm… we’ll meet again.”
From Edgar Camacho’s Onion Skin
“This is how I feel every single day of my life, like I’m falling without a parachute.”
From Jerry Craft's New Kid
“Hello, sports fans!!!”
From Yehudi Mercado's Chunky
“Good luck, Magic Cat!”
From Audra Winslow's Jo & Rus
“My name is Harriet Wermer.”
From Elana K. Arnold’s Just Harriet
“We were on our way to Dad’s house and Mom was driving with both hands clamped tightly around the wheel as if she had me by the neck.”
From Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza Loses Control
“Greetings, initiate!”
From Rick Riordan's Brooklyn House Magician's Manual
“Okay, so when you’ve just moved to a new town and are still a total outsider…”
From Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward
“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
First Sentence of a New World 