From Keith Calabrese’s Connect the Dots
“’All right, then,’ Frankie said, rubbing his hands together.”
“A garage sale.”
From Gillian Goerz's Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer
“Ali Cross, where are you???”
From James Patterson's Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“I stared down an overconfident Sherlock Holmes, begging him to so much as twitch.”
From Heather W. Petty's Lock & Mori: Mind Games
“Gayle!”
From Ira Marcus' Shark Summer
“I wore a hat with a feather plume the first time I met Sherlock Holmes.”
From Heather W. Petty's Lock & Mori
“It had been three days since my friend disappeared and I was starting to think the worst might have happened.”
From James Patterson’s Ali Cross
“This is the principal.”
From Gary Paulsen’s Mudshark
“Stephen, Stephen, Stephen.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Fever Code
“Stop it!”
From Mari Mancusi’s Dangerous Secrets: The Story of Iduna and Agnarr
“Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town.”
From Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy
“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
“My name is Moon.”
From Eoin Colfer's Half Moon Investigations
“One morning I was arguing with the adult in charge of me.”
From Lemony Snicket's File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
First Sentence of a New World 