From Rick Riordan's The Demigod Files
“I was in fifth-period science class when I heard these noises outside.”
“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
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“To be honest, I’m not great with words, so I wasn’t keen on writing anything for this book.”
From Rick Riordan‘s Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the Norse Worlds
“Big Ed is about to tell it again.”
From Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
“The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal.”
From Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
“Gayle!”
From Ira Marcus' Shark Summer
“My life in Taiwan is sweet.”
From Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu's Measuring Up
“Kitty lives in a barn.”
From Meika Hashimoto’s Kitty and Dragon
“The eerie, booming call of the steam klaxon reverberated through the cabin, wrenching the dozen snoring phraxminers from their sleep.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Immortals
“Here in Sueño Bay, Robertson Island, it rains over two hundred days a year.”
From Mike and Nancy Deas’ Sueño Bay Adventures: Shadow Island
“Standing outside of St. Julia Child Elementary and Middle School, I choked on the stink.”
From Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic’s The League of Picky Eaters
“Most everyone in Utah remembers 1896 as the year the territory became a state.”
From John D. Fitzgerald's The Great Brain
“All children, except one, grow up.”
From J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
First Sentence of a New World 