From Lucy Knisley's Stepping Stones
“Hmm…”
“It was midday and Undertown was bustling.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Stormchaser
“The light woke Jessie, though it was just a glimmer downstairs.”
From Margaret Peterson Haddix's Running Out of Time
“In the Vaults of the Manuscriptorium, The Live Plan of What Lies Beneath was unrolled on a large table.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Fyre
“Lying down, shivering on the last seat of school bus 161, pinned by his teensy doggie gaze, which is completely 100% cute—I’m such a girl, I know—I say, ‘You won’t believe the bull I had to endure today.”
From Matthew Quick's Sorta Like a Rockstar
“Hey, don’t touch that!”
From Steve Behling’s The Pirate Angel, the Taking Tree, and Captain Rabbit
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“Lucy Gringe found the last space on the dawn Port barge.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Darke
“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
From Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain
“They are too fast!”
From Jason Platt's Middle School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist
“You’ve probably never heard of Vincenzo Perugia.”
From Frank Cottrell Boyce's Framed
“Roy would not have noticed the strange boy if it weren’t for Dana Matherson, because Roy ordinarily didn’t look out the window of the school bus.”
From Carl Hiaasen’s Hoot
“It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
“One morning I was arguing with the adult in charge of me.”
From Lemony Snicket's File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
“Okay…”
From Benjamin Renner's The Big Bad Fox
First Sentence of a New World 