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First Lines **A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle** (It was a dark and stormy night…) **A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens** (It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…) **Moby-Dick by Herman Melville** (Call me Ishmael) **Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain** (You don’t know about me without you have…) **The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis** (There was a boy named Eustace Clarence and…) **Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe** (I was born in the Year 1632, in the city of York, of good…) **The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane** (The cold passed reluctantly from the earth…) **Charlotte’s Webby E.B. White** (Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother…) **And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss** (When you leave home to walk to school, Dad always says to me, “Marco keep your eyelids up and see what you can see.” ) **Sounder by William H. Armstrong** (The tall man stood at the edge of the porch. The roof sagged from the two rough posts which held…) **The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter** (Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter…) **The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by John Scieszka** (Everybody knows the story of the Three Little Pigs. Or at least they think they do…) **The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken** (It was dusk-winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees…) **Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl** (These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine…) **The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien** (In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**The Giver by Lois Lowry** (It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman** (12th Day of September: I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by my family…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech** (GRANDPA SAYS THAT I AM A COUNTRY GIRL AT HEART, and that is true…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Hatchet by Brian Paulsen** (Brian Robeson stared out of the window of the small plane…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne** (Here comes Edward Bear, coming downstairs now…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mi**ssing May by Cynthia Rylant** (When May died, Ob came back to the trailer, got out of his good suit and into his regular clothes, then went and sat in the Chevy…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl** (Here is James Henry Trotter when he was about four years old. Up until this time, he had had a happy life, living peacefully…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift** (My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire. I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien** (Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named Mr. Fitzgibbon.) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum** (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…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen** ("I'm tired of Remembering," Hannah said to her mother as she climbed into the car. She was flushed with April sun…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Heidi by Johanna Spyri** (From the pleasantly situated old town of Mayenfeld a footpath leads up through shady green meadows to the foot of the mountain…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg** (Mrs. Eva Marie Olinski always gave good answers. Whenever she was asked how she had selected her team for the Academic Bowl…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer** (Crouched on a branch of a mukuyu tree, a girl tore open a speckled fruit. She grimaced as ants scurried over her fingers. So many!) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**The Case of the Baker Street Irregular by Robert Newman** (Andrew had expected London to be large. He had not expected it to be frightening. But as the green fields…) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord** (In the Year of the Dog, 4645, there lived halfway across the world from New York a girl called Sixth Cousin…)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.(Whit**e Fang by Jack London**)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.(**Little Women by Louisa May Alcott**)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventyifirst birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.(**Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien**)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.( **Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K.Rowling**)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.( **Northern Lights/Golden Compassby Philip Pullman)**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Call me Ishmael. - **Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- **Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit)**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**It was a Pleasure to Burn (**Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">" The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school..." Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">" The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car..." Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">" Ho Chi Minh CIty in the summer. Sweltering by anyone's standards..." Artemis Fowl: Book One by Eoin Colfer.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">" My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down..." Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"There is no lake in camp green lake..." Holes by Louis Sachar