From Molly Brooks' Sanity & Tallulah
“Wow, you’re so wrong right now that I don’t understand how we’re even friends.”
“What about BIG AL?”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Swing It, Sunny
“It was cold in the great chamber; bitter cold.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Vox
“Freedom!”
From Remy Lai's Pawcasso
“Harry has been to day care before.”
Emily Jenkins’ Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School
“Jackson Jones peered through his binoculars at the horizon.”
From Michael Buckley's NERDS: National Espionage Rescue and Defense Society
“The problem with smart people is this: They can be really stupid 95 percent of the time.”
From Gordon Korman’s Supergifted
“When I was little, I didn’t worry about friends.”
From Shannon Hale's Real Friends
“You’d have to be nuts to trust a magician.”
From Paul Griffin's When Friendship Followed Me Home
“The young under-librarian awoke drenched in sweat.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
“Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.”
From Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
“Sunny!”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Sunny Side Up
“I guess Mom was pretty proud of herself for making me write in that journal last year, because now she went and bought me another one.”
From Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
“I just wanted to have a friend.”
From Bruce Coville's I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.”
From E. L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
First Sentence of a New World 