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.”
“Big Ed is about to tell it again.”
From Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
“‘Where’s Papa going with that ax?’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.”
From E. B. White's Charlotte's Web
“One evening at supper, Pa asked, ‘How would you like to work in town, Laura?'”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Little Town on the Prairie
“The mowing machine’s whirring sounded cheerfully from the old buffalo wallow south of the claim shanty, where bluestem grass stood thick and tall and Pa was cutting it for hay.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: The Long Winter
“I’m sitting in front of an extra large pepperoni pizza.”
From Lauren Morrill's It's Kind of a Cheesy Love Story
“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the woods of Wisconsin.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie
“Flora Belle Buckman was in her room at her desk.”
From Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses
“Look, nobody’s ever accused me of being a good boy.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Bob
“Danny Malooley was four years old when he learned the hard way that lemon-scented soap tasted nothing like lemons and everything like soap.”
From James Gould-Bourn's Bear Necessity
“Linnet Ridgeway!”
From Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile
“Ok–answer me this: why would anyone want to wear an overcoat in San Francisco in the middle of summer?”
From Michael Scott's The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
“Artemis sat on an oxblood leather armchair, facing Beckett and Myles.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox
“Frederick Frederickson was thinking about strawberry daiquiris when the dodgeball slammed into his face.”
From Kate Beasley's Lions & Liars
“This story was going to begin like all the best stories.”
From Jason Reynolds' Look Both Ways
First Sentence of a New World 