From Kwame Mbalia’s Tristan Strong Destroys the World
“Nobody likes getting punched in the face.”
“‘Lay off the freaking horn!’ I said, rubbing my forehead.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
“It was 118 degrees in Silver Springs, Arizona, and the Gila River was thick with algae.”
Tehlor Kay Mejia's Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
“This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week.”
From Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
“Flora Belle Buckman was in her room at her desk.”
From Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses
“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
“Sweeping, swooping, soaring.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
“I believe in returning dead bodies.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant's Tomb
“Look, nobody’s ever accused me of being a good boy.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Bob
“If a person wants to murder any member of a family, then it is very important that the entire family also be done away with, or the distraught survivors might very well decide to take bloody revenge, or at the least make a detailed report at the local police station.”
From Eoin Colfer's The Fowl Twins
“Deep in the green-glowing bowels of a Chinatown seafood market, down a dead-end hallway lined with crab tanks, we crouched in a puddle of dark the light-eater had made, watched over by a thousand alien eyes.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: The Conference of the Birds
“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
“I am Ivan.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan
“No.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze
“Artemis Fowl, once self-proclaimed teenage criminal mastermind, now prefers the term juvenile genius.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian
First Sentence of a New World 