From Mike Holmes’ My Own World
“Gimme back my noodle!”
“Navigation system?”
From Duane Murray and Shawn Daley’s Better Place
“The seventh-grade teachers of Stirling Middle School did not put any thought into the important task of assigning field trip partners.”
From Stacy McAnulty’s Millionaires for the Month
“As summer wheat came ripe, so did I, born at home, on the kitchen floor.”
From Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust
“Phew, made it!”
From Isabel Roxas’ The Adventures of Team Pom: Squid Happens
“Priyanka!”
From Nidhi Chanani’s Pashmina
“Yasmina!”
From Wauter Mannaert’s Chef Yasmina and the Potato Panic
“’All right, then,’ Frankie said, rubbing his hands together.”
From Keith Calabrese’s Connect the Dots
“Okay, guys.”
From Jenna Ayoub’s Forever Home
“A garage sale.”
From Gillian Goerz's Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer
“Ali Cross, where are you???”
From James Patterson's Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“Big Ed is about to tell it again.”
From Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
“The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal.”
From Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
“Standing outside of St. Julia Child Elementary and Middle School, I choked on the stink.”
From Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic’s The League of Picky Eaters
First Sentence of a New World 