From Kimberly Willis Holt's When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
“Nothing ever happens in Antler, Texas.”
“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
“March McQuin didn’t think he’d ever be in this position again — upside down and dangling twenty feet over a store floor at three o’clock in the morning.”
From Jude Watson's Sting
“I stood at the bottom of the driveway in my pajamas with a serious case of bed head.”
From Allan Woodrow’s The Pet War
“A bright red plastic chair sat in the hallway outside the door of the principal’s office.”
From Andrew Clements' The Losers Club
“None of this stuff would have happened if I hadn’t been sitting next to Matthew Diaz.”
From Dave Barry's The Worst Class Trip Ever
“Noonday sun now.”
From Julia Billet's Catherine's War
“Out in the vast cloudscape, a lone sky ship in full sail cut through the thin air.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
“I want a refund from ancestry.com.”
From Gordon Korman's Ungifted
“My name is Moon.”
From Eoin Colfer's Half Moon Investigations
“Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow.”
From Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon
First Sentence of a New World 