From Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
“Big Ed is about to tell it again.”
“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
“When a plan came from Griffin Bing, even the tiniest detail had to be perfect.”
From Gordon Korman's Swindle
“‘Not even here in this place of ghosts and demons and half-formed things!’ bellowed the wild-eyed sky pirate captain, his voice cracking as he struggled to make himself heard above the screaming wind.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Clash of the Sky Galleons
“It had been three days since my friend disappeared and I was starting to think the worst might have happened.”
From James Patterson’s Ali Cross
“Stephen, Stephen, Stephen.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Fever Code
“The problem with smart people is this: They can be really stupid 95 percent of the time.”
From Gordon Korman’s Supergifted
“Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.”
From Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
“I want a refund from ancestry.com.”
From Gordon Korman's Ungifted
“Hey, don’t touch that!”
From Steve Behling’s The Pirate Angel, the Taking Tree, and Captain Rabbit
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“Lucy Gringe found the last space on the dawn Port barge.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Darke
“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
From Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Christopher was dead.”
From Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
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