From Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu's Measuring Up
“My life in Taiwan is sweet.”
“‘That slowpoke Sarah!’ Henny cried.”
From Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family
“Christine, your collar was undone the whole time!”
From Jen Wang's Stargazing
“…Need to flip the top and bottom numbers.”
From Tori Sharp's Just Pretend
“Dear Bill, This is Calvin again.”
From Martine Leavitt's Calvin
“I’m working on making a world.”
From Jake Burt's Greetings from Witness Protection!
“My goal in school is to be noticed as little as possible.”
From Cliff Burke's An Occasionally Happy Family
“What about BIG AL?”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Swing It, Sunny
“Harry has been to day care before.”
Emily Jenkins’ Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School
“The problem with smart people is this: They can be really stupid 95 percent of the time.”
From Gordon Korman’s Supergifted
“When I was little, I didn’t worry about friends.”
From Shannon Hale's Real Friends
“Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.”
From Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
“You’d have to be nuts to trust a magician.”
From Paul Griffin's When Friendship Followed Me Home
“Sunny!”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Sunny Side Up
“I guess Mom was pretty proud of herself for making me write in that journal last year, because now she went and bought me another one.”
From Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
First Sentence of a New World 