From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Stormchaser
“It was midday and Undertown was bustling.”
“Hey, don’t touch that!”
From Steve Behling’s The Pirate Angel, the Taking Tree, and Captain Rabbit
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“Lucy Gringe found the last space on the dawn Port barge.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Darke
“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
From Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Christopher was dead.”
From Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
“Wake up, Hilda, it’s almost time to get off the train.”
From Matilda Nordtvedt's Song of the Brook
“My story starts with a dream.”
From Aaron Reynolds' The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter
“‘Okay, Danny, we’re ready to go live in thirty seconds.'”
From Trent Reedy's Divided We Fall: The Last Full Measure
“After my reconciliation with my brothers in the summer of 1889, I spent August quite happily with Reginold Collie, visiting Ferndale, my childhood home in the country.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche
“The next morning I got ready for school…”
From Maria Scrivan's Nat Enough
“It was an afternoon in late September.”
From Richard and Florence Atwater's Mr. Popper's Penguins
“5:12.”
From James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet's Maximum Ride: Hawk
“How do you say good-bye to a friend?”
From Elana K. Arnold's Bat and the End of Everything
“There was a town, and there was a train, and there was a murder.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
First Sentence of a New World 