From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: The Long Winter
“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.”
“I remember falling.”
From Gordon Korman's Restart
“It is difficult to choose a new name for oneself.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
“Laura was washing the dishes one morning when old Jack, lying in the sunshine on the doorstep, growled to tell her that someone was coming.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: By the Shores of Silver Lake
“Bixby Alexander Tam stared into the refrigerator, trying to decide what to eat.”
From Elana K. Arnold’s A Boy Called Bat
“Humans have it all wrong about aliens.”
From Carlie Sorosiak's Leonard (My Life As a Cat)
“‘We would not be in this deplorable situation,’ declares the younger and taller of the two men in the small club-room, ‘if you had not tried to bully her into boarding school!'”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
“The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: On the Banks of Plum Creek
“Nobody likes getting punched in the face.”
From Kwame Mbalia’s Tristan Strong Destroys the World
“I would very much like to know why my mother named me “Enola,” which, backwards, spells alone.”
From Nancy Springer’s The Case of the Missing Marquess
“It was 118 degrees in Silver Springs, Arizona, and the Gila River was thick with algae.”
Tehlor Kay Mejia's Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
“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
“This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week.”
From Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
“Flora Belle Buckman was in her room at her desk.”
From Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses
First Sentence of a New World 