March+25


 * 1) It was dusk-winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees//. (The Wolves of Willoughby Chase// – Joan Aiken)
 * 2) When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. (//Stormbreaker// – Anthony Horowitz)
 * 3) There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. (//The Voyage of the Dawn Treader// – C.S. Lewis)

4. Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.(//Little Women// by Louisa May Alcott)

5. At six forty-five one summer morning, a red London bus was crossing Waterloo Bridge. (//Tanglewreck// – Jeanette Winterson)

6. Ma, a mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. (//Ragweed// – Avi)

7. If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it. (//The Teacher’s Funeral// – Richard Peck)

8. Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light.(//White Fang// by Jack London)

9. Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.(//Winnie the Pooh// by A.A. Milne)

10. Here is James Henry Trotter when he was about four years old. Up until this time, he had had a happy life, living peacefully with his mother and father in a beautiful house beside the sea.(//James and the Giant Peach// – Roald Dahl)

11. Mrs. Eva Marie Olinski always gave good answers. Whenever she was asked how she had selected her team for the Academic Bowl, she chose one of several good answers.(//The View from Saturday// - E. L. Koningsburg)

12. Andrew had expected London to be large. He had not expected it to be frightening. But as the green fields gave way to seemingly endless rows of small, mean houses he began to feel uneasy. (//The case of the Baker Street Irregulars// – Robert Newman)

13. The villagers of little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House' even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there. (//HP and the Goblet of Fire// – JK Rowling)

14. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the Farmer's wife. (The Wizard of Oz – Frank L. Baum)

15. Matthias cut a comical little figure as he wobbled his way along the cloisters, with his large sandals flip-flopping and his tail peeping from beneath the baggy folds of an oversized novice's habit. (//Redwall// – Brian Jacques)