From Gavin Aung Than’s Super Sidekicks: No Adults Allowed
“Big Ed is about to tell it again.”
From Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
“March McQuin didn’t think he’d ever be in this position again — upside down and dangling twenty feet over a store floor at three o’clock in the morning.”
From Jude Watson's Sting
“Don’t step in the blood.”
From Gary Paulsen's Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat
“Lumawoo, look.”
From Maryrose Wood‘s The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Unseen Guest
“The mowing machine’s whirring sounded cheerfully from the old buffalo wallow south of the claim shanty, where bluestem grass stood thick and tall and Pa was cutting it for hay.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: The Long Winter
“I remember falling.”
From Gordon Korman's Restart
“Come on.”
From Colleen AF Venable's Katie the Catsitter
“But the workmen swore the repairs to the house would be finished by now!”
From Maryrose Wood’s The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery
“‘We would not be in this deplorable situation,’ declares the younger and taller of the two men in the small club-room, ‘if you had not tried to bully her into boarding school!'”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
“The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: On the Banks of Plum Creek
“Most flight regulations do not allow children to fly planes on transatlantic routes.”
From Eoin Colfer’s The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges
“Nobody likes getting punched in the face.”
From Kwame Mbalia’s Tristan Strong Destroys the World
“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