From R.J. Palacio’s Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
“Okay, okay, okay.”
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
“The day after my mother died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a gray shroud and carried her to the village church.”
From Avi's Crispin: The Cross of Lead.
“Here we go again.”
Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy
“I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”
R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
“The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian.
“The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth.
“The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan's Curse.
“Torren was out at the edge of the cabbage field that day, the day the people came.”
From Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember: The People of Sparks.
“Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril.
“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called ‘The Road Less Traveled,’ describing a journey he took through the woods along a path that most travelers never used.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope.
“After a great deal of time examining oceans, investigating rainstorms, and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the world developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which they have named ‘the water cycle.'”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto.
“When my workday is over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen, and sawed holes in my rented canoe so that it cannot be found, I often like to spend the evening in conversation with my few surviving friends.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival.
”My nightmare started like this.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters.
First Sentence of a New World 