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Favorite First Sentences! Submit your favorite first sentences on this thread. Be sure to include the title and author of the book, too.
submitted by Old Cricket, age Eternal, In the Library
(March 31, 2018 - 10:55 pm)
(March 31, 2018 - 10:55 pm)
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. - Holes by Louis Sachar
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it. - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
All children, except one, grow up. - Peter Pan by J.M Barrie
It was Mrs. May you first told me about them. - The Borrowers by Mary Norton
(September 6, 2018 - 1:30 am)
Arrietty!!!!!!!! You're back!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!! *tackle hugs*
(September 6, 2018 - 3:18 pm)
"I'm obsessed with abandoned things." -Listening for Lucca, by Suzanne Lafleur
"My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of mac-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog." -Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
"Far away from here, following the Jade River, there was once a black mountain that cut into the sky like a jagged piece of rough metal." -Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin
Just a few books I've read since leaving and coming back.
(September 9, 2018 - 6:23 pm)
I absolutley positivley LOVE Because of Winn-Dixie and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon!
(September 10, 2018 - 6:50 pm)
Because of Winn-Dixie is one of my all-time favorite books, too! And Where the Mountain Meets the Moon has been on my reading list for a very long time, and I just read it last summer.
(September 14, 2018 - 11:27 pm)
"Celie stared across the courtyard of the Royal Palace of Grath. An endless sea of tiny dogs stared back." -Saturdays at Sea.- Jessica Day George
(October 27, 2018 - 11:06 am)
"Celie stared across the courtyard of the Royal Palace of Grath. An endless sea of tiny dogs stared back." -Saturdays at Sea.- Jessica Day George
(October 27, 2018 - 11:08 am)
Oh my goodness!!!!!!! Emily!!!!! you've read the Castle series???? I LOVE those books!!!!!
(October 28, 2018 - 2:18 pm)
Here's a funny one to top this thread:
"Poop." - As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds
(January 30, 2019 - 12:41 pm)
"The HiveWing city loomed out of the savanna, impossibly tall and imposing and indestructable-looking, and honestly, its big smug aura would have been enough reason to burn it down, in Bryony's opinion." Wings of Fire: The Poison Jungle by Tui T. Sutherland
"The auroch appeared quite suddenly from the trees on the other side of the stream." Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Spirit Walker by Michelle Paver
(January 9, 2020 - 2:20 pm)