From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14: Savage Drift
“Niko’s eyes flashed to our faces, one by one.”
“There was a town, and there was a librarian, and there was a fire.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Shouldn't You Be in School?
“Sweeney gave me a little too much lead on the pass.”
From Trent Reedy’s Divided We Fall
“For a long time after that summer, the four Penderwick sisters still talked of Arundel.”
From Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
“Graduation Day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing
“Artemis sat on an oxblood leather armchair, facing Beckett and Myles.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox
“Twenty-five years ago, I killed my mother.”
From Sarah Zettel's The Other Sister
“Beth and Ryan were holding hands.”
From Kristen Simmons' Article 5
“Mark shivered with cold, something he hadn’t done in a long time.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Kill Order
“Eli sat on the front porch steps, crammed in with his brothers, while Papa fiddled with the camera.”
From Dana Alison Levy's The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
“Happy was not a word often used to describe Artemis Fowl’s bodyguard.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
“Frederick Frederickson was thinking about strawberry daiquiris when the dodgeball slammed into his face.”
From Kate Beasley's Lions & Liars
“MacGyver caught the silver tab between his teeth and slid the zipper free.”
From Melinda Metz's The Secret Life of Mac
“This story was going to begin like all the best stories.”
From Jason Reynolds' Look Both Ways
“‘Did you see her?’”
From Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl
First Sentence of a New World 