From Olivia Stephens’ Artie and the Wolf Moon
“Hey, Artie.”
“Navigation system?”
From Duane Murray and Shawn Daley’s Better Place
“I hate my father.”
From Paula Danziger's The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
“As summer wheat came ripe, so did I, born at home, on the kitchen floor.”
From Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust
“Oh…”
From Mikaël Ross’ The Thud
“A dark and stormy night!”
From Shaenon K. Garrity's The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor
“See, it won’t be so bad!”
From Whitney Gardner's Long Distance
“Greetings, initiate!”
From Rick Riordan's Brooklyn House Magician's Manual
“Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.”
From Gary Paulsen's Hatchet
“Teresa dribbled past me, switching hands as I’d taught her.”
From S. A. Bodeen's The Compound
“I emerge from the simulation with a yell.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Four
“To be honest, I’m not great with words, so I wasn’t keen on writing anything for this book.”
From Rick Riordan‘s Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the Norse Worlds
“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
“I stared down an overconfident Sherlock Holmes, begging him to so much as twitch.”
From Heather W. Petty's Lock & Mori: Mind Games
“I wore a hat with a feather plume the first time I met Sherlock Holmes.”
From Heather W. Petty's Lock & Mori
First Sentence of a New World 