From Maria Scrivan's Forget Me Nat
“Mom?”
From Raina Telgemeier's Guts
“I have just returned from the school dance and lived to tell the tale.”
From Aaron Reynolds’ The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter: Narwhal I’m Around
“Okay…”
From Benjamin Renner's The Big Bad Fox
“Christopher was dead.”
From Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
“My name is Newell.”
From Jason Platt's Middle School Misadventures
“My story starts with a dream.”
From Aaron Reynolds' The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter
“Are you sure you’re all packed?”
From Raina Telgemeier's Sisters
“Erik’s heart hammered in his chest as though Thor himself were tunneling out of his rib cage.”
From Christina Uss’ Erik Vs. Everything
“Smile!!”
From Raina Telgemeier's Smile
“…And the start of our adventure.”
From Rich Moyer's Ham Helsing: Vampire Hunter
“I’m sitting in front of an extra large pepperoni pizza.”
From Lauren Morrill's It's Kind of a Cheesy Love Story
“Although I’d realized six or eight weeks ago that I was crazy about Tina Zabinski and I wanted to go on a date with her the same way I want to keep converting oxygen into carbon dioxide, I’d been playing it cool, taking it slow.”
From Gary Paulsen's Crush
“It was not Miss Penelope Lumley‘s first journey on a train, but it was the first one she had taken alone.”
From Maryrose Wood's The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling
“Danny Malooley was four years old when he learned the hard way that lemon-scented soap tasted nothing like lemons and everything like soap.”
From James Gould-Bourn's Bear Necessity