Kristen Gudsnuk’s Making Friends: Back to the Drawing Board
“I’ve been writing the chronicles of my life.”
“A garage sale.”
From Gillian Goerz's Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer
“Lucy and Andy live in a cave with their mom and dad and little brother, Danny.”
From Jeffrey Brown's Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal.”
From Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
“My life in Taiwan is sweet.”
From Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu's Measuring Up
“The eerie, booming call of the steam klaxon reverberated through the cabin, wrenching the dozen snoring phraxminers from their sleep.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Immortals
“All children, except one, grow up.”
From J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
“I wore a hat with a feather plume the first time I met Sherlock Holmes.”
From Heather W. Petty's Lock & Mori
“‘Not even here in this place of ghosts and demons and half-formed things!’ bellowed the wild-eyed sky pirate captain, his voice cracking as he struggled to make himself heard above the screaming wind.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Clash of the Sky Galleons
“Stephen, Stephen, Stephen.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Fever Code
“The academic, in his grubby, paint-splattered robes of faded ‘viaduct’ blue, turned the crank lever with his free hand.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Winter Knights
“What are we going to do?”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Freeglader
“Wow, you’re so wrong right now that I don’t understand how we’re even friends.”
From Molly Brooks' Sanity & Tallulah
“What about BIG AL?”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Swing It, Sunny
First Sentence of a New World 