From Jake Burt's Greetings from Witness Protection!
“Henry Huggins’s dog Ribsy was a plain ordinary city dog, the kind of dog that strangers usually called Mutt or Pooch.”
From Beverly Cleary's Ribsy
“Ooooooh!”
From James Patterson and Steven Butler's Dog Diaries
“What are you doing, Andy?”
From Jeffrey Brown's Lucy & Andy Neanderthal
“What about BIG AL?”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Swing It, Sunny
“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
“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
“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
“I want a refund from ancestry.com.”
From Gordon Korman's Ungifted
“Have you ever done something extremely stupid like, oh, I don’t know, try to make a room filled with total strangers laugh until their sides hurt?”
From James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein's I Funny
“Hey, don’t touch that!”
From Steve Behling’s The Pirate Angel, the Taking Tree, and Captain Rabbit
“Hey, Zoe!”
From Maria Scrivan's Forget Me Nat