From Gordon Korman’s Supergifted
“The problem with smart people is this: They can be really stupid 95 percent of the time.”
“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
“Nothing ever happens in Antler, Texas.”
From Kimberly Willis Holt's When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
“Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town.”
From Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy
“The great vaulted entrance-hall to the Palace of Shadows was silent save for the hiss of the wind and the soft, yet echoing footfall of the immense insect-like creature that teetered unsteadily across the marble floor.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Curse of the Gloamglozer
“Sixth grade!”
From Varian Johnson's Twins
“‘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
First Sentence of a New World 