From Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
“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.”
“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.”
From E. L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Nothing ever happens in Antler, Texas.”
From Kimberly Willis Holt's When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
“Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town.”
From Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy
“Sixth grade!”
From Varian Johnson's Twins
“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
“I stood at the bottom of the driveway in my pajamas with a serious case of bed head.”
From Allan Woodrow’s The Pet War
“A bright red plastic chair sat in the hallway outside the door of the principal’s office.”
From Andrew Clements' The Losers Club
“The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of bubble gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.”
From Carl Hiaasen's Flush
“Have you ever done something extremely stupid like, oh, I don’t know, try to make a room filled with total strangers laugh until their sides hurt?”
From James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein's I Funny
“Lying down, shivering on the last seat of school bus 161, pinned by his teensy doggie gaze, which is completely 100% cute—I’m such a girl, I know—I say, ‘You won’t believe the bull I had to endure today.”
From Matthew Quick's Sorta Like a Rockstar
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“You’ve probably never heard of Vincenzo Perugia.”
From Frank Cottrell Boyce's Framed
“Roy would not have noticed the strange boy if it weren’t for Dana Matherson, because Roy ordinarily didn’t look out the window of the school bus.”
From Carl Hiaasen’s Hoot
“Mom?”
From Raina Telgemeier's Guts
First Sentence of a New World 