Have You Read These?

Sometimes you can tell from the first line of a book that it is the one for you! Here are some great first lines from some great books!

"My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macroni-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog." (Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo)

"Lisa is pregnant." (Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer)

"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time for it." (The Teacher's Funeral by Robert Newton Peck)

"The end was coming, but I didn't see it coming." (Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs)

"Ernie looked like a total teacher's pet..." (The Beloved Dearly by Doug Cooney)

"Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood." (The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan)

"Ellie had gone into the church because of her feet." (Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson)

"I was thirteen when Mama died, fourteen when Derek and I arrived in the States." (The Tamarack Tree by Patricia Clapp)