From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Farmer Boy
“It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago.”
“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
“It was that last piece of his father’s advice that March McQuin found himself contemplating at three in the morning on a picturesque bridge over a dark canal in Amsterdam.”
From Jude Watson's Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods
“I’m lying on a steel table, all too aware of the giant ray gun pointed in my direction.”
From Rob Harrell's Wink
“He found himself standing next to the flag pole in Town Square, in the heart of the Magic Kingdom.”
From Ridley Pearson's The Kingdom Keepers
“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?
“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
“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
“This story was going to begin like all the best stories.”
From Jason Reynolds' Look Both Ways
“The pale light of the newly risen sun made the dew shimmer on the nearby grass as Jared, Mallory, and Simon trudged along the early morning roads.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wrath of Mulgarath
“All right, let’ get the boring stuff out of the way.”
From Stephan Pastis’ Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
First Sentence of a New World 