From Emma Steinkellner's The Okay Witch
“What are we going to do?”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Freeglader
“Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.”
From Rick Riordan's Demigods & Magicians
“Henry Huggins’s dog Ribsy was a plain ordinary city dog, the kind of dog that strangers usually called Mutt or Pooch.”
From Beverly Cleary's Ribsy
“Nadia did a slow spin in front of her bedroom mirror.”
From Bassem Youssef and Catherine R. Daly's The Magical Reality of Nadia
“My goal in school is to be noticed as little as possible.”
From Cliff Burke's An Occasionally Happy Family
“Ooooooh!”
From James Patterson and Steven Butler's Dog Diaries
“What are you doing, Andy?”
From Jeffrey Brown's Lucy & Andy Neanderthal
“Wow, you’re so wrong right now that I don’t understand how we’re even friends.”
From Molly Brooks' Sanity & Tallulah
“What about BIG AL?”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Swing It, Sunny
“It was cold in the great chamber; bitter cold.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Vox
“Freedom!”
From Remy Lai's Pawcasso
“Harry has been to day care before.”
Emily Jenkins’ Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School
“Jackson Jones peered through his binoculars at the horizon.”
From Michael Buckley's NERDS: National Espionage Rescue and Defense Society
“The problem with smart people is this: They can be really stupid 95 percent of the time.”
From Gordon Korman’s Supergifted