[ISLMA-Share] Great First Lines

Thu Mar 16 10:35:01 CDT 2017

I did this as a game in our first BLT meeting and had sets for the kids to
match with the book covers:

Answer Key for Matching:

   1.

   Callum Hunt was a legend in his little North Carolina town, but not in a
   good way.  The Iron Trial
   2.

   This time we were in the Great Room enduring another etiquette lesson
   when bricks came flying through the window.  The One
   3.

   For Alexis Frost, Nick Walker, and Ruby McClure, it all started with a
   phone call and two texts.  It ended with fear and courage, love and
   loathing, screaming and blood.  The Body in the Woods
   4.

   All I had to do was walk up to the coffin.  The Secret Hum of a Daisy
   5.

   Of all the items that can clog your plumbing, an overweight Arctic
   mammal is probably the worst.  Timmy Failure:  Now Look What You’ve Done
   6.

   Nick was hit by a flying toaster.  Tesla’s Attic
   7.

   On the first day of September, the world went dark.  The Geography of Me
   and You
   8.

   By the time I was fifteen years old, I had been in jail nine times.  Turning
   15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
   9.

   Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a
   palm tree and hit him on the head.  Chomp
   10.

   Benny Imura couldn’t hold a job, so he took to killing.  Rot & Ruin
   11.

   Things had been getting a little better until I got a letter from my
   dead sister.  Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters
   12.

   I loved my baby brother, until Uncle took me to market and sold me.  Spilled
   Water
   13.

   All I needed was handcuffs.  If my wrists had been chained to the seat,
   the scene would have been straight from one of those movies where they show
   the bus bringing the new guy to the prison.  Hidden Talents
   14.

   Can you keep a secret?  Everybody has secrets, of course, but mine’s
   different, and it’s kind of weird.  The Tail of Emily Windsnap
   15.

   T.S. Eliot was wrong.  My world ended with a bang the minute we entered
   the Compound and that silver door closed behind us.  The Compound
   16.

   I’m the best liar you’ll ever meet.  I should be good; I’ve had a lot of
   practice.  Liar, Liar
   17.

   On the morning of September 16, 1860, my pa shot me.  Black Storm Comin’
   18.

   There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the
   hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the
   second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair.
   Divergent
   19.

   The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my
   car. The Last Olympian
   20.

   The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.  The Uglies
   21.

   When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.
   Stormbreaker
   22.

   If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it.
Teacher’s
   Funeral
   23.

   I have been accused of being anal retentive, an over-achiever, and a
   compulsive perfectionist, like those are bad things.  Millicent Min
   24.

   If I had to do it all over again, I would not have chosen this life.  The
   False Prince
   25.

   Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.  The
   Lost Hero
   26.

   There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.  Holes
   27.

   If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better
   off reading some other book.  The Bad Beginning
   28.

   On the morning I was scheduled to die, a large barefoot man with a bushy
   red beard waddled past my house.  The Colossus Rises
   29.

   It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child
   is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still
   think that he or she is wonderful.  Mathilda
   30.

   All I want is a maple bar; but I don't think these kids with the guns
   care about what I want.  Inside Out
   31.

   It's the first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a
   skirt I hate, and a stomachache.  Speak
   32.

   The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the
   dentist.  Born to Rock
   33.

   “There are places you can go,” Ariana tells him, “and a guy as smart as
   you has a decent chance of surviving to eighteen.”  Unwind
   34.

   One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next
   minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No
   explosion.  Gone
   35.

   I was the first one in the family to know when Mama started to go
   insane.  Or Give Me Death
   36.

    I never thought I would save the world - or die saving it.  Extraordinary
   Adventures of Alfred Kropp
   37.

   Not every thirteen-year-old girl was accused of murder, put on trial,
   and proven guilty. But I was just such a girl.  The True Confessions of
   Charlotte Doyle
   38.

   I know I'm not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.  Wonder
   39.

   I was sitting at the edge of the clearing, trying not to stare at the
   body on the ground in front of me.  Eleventh Plague
   40.

   My mother thinks I’m dead.  Legend

Kathy Wickline
Unity Junior High Librarian
Tolono, IL
wicklinek at unity.k12.il.us

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I'm looking for great first lines for a bulletin board from books that are
> middle school/high school level. Anyone have any favorites to share? Here's
> a few examples I have:
>
> *“My mother thinks I’m dead. Obviously I’m **not dead, but it’s safer for
> her to think so.” – Legend by Lu*
>
> *"Sophie had waited all her life to be kidnapped." – School of Good and
> Evil by Chainani*
>
> *“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when
> extraordinary things began to happen.”*–– *Miss Peregrine’s Home for
> Peculiar Children*
> <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460487-miss-peregrine-s-home-for-peculiar-children?ac=1> by
> Ransom Riggs
>
> --
> Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library.
> The only entrance
>  requirement is interest. - Lady Bird Johnson
>
>
>
> <https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS501US501&espv=2&biw=1725&bih=900&q=I+have+always+imagined+that+Paradise+will+be+a+kind+of+library.&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAHWSvU7DMBSFyQAqbkFVkBDKhBADW5qmTcIMbFQI2r2qE-evdpzEbhvnMZjZWOFB6AMwMrDxBoy0SDjJwObP59x77rXc2j070APdMKBte2Zawv4hjmA-y8VptqAcsbXS1NcK0IneGzjhvH8pATLuSKcwA8LyYa0SDnhh1jjLWZxIdqAZk8Cu9CkRNg7_2DU4cR2yrE8SCj-R4cHGIcGzlrwxScbTyol7gWxLAksE2JJivJxnlZPgQXN1UokxdstKTM0-X9W2C2MHJp7kwijdKfdlbGKmpl00ti1hsaq_RmgM8yosndufyqvS7n59fxxpz8rjy9u78qSA7i2lDGHxgPCMI29C1XOwd5PwiAtVAx2t9VsfOuHFjgaAJBWC9hjxCR1RL_KFOlbvwf4IEYhyduer1wBcUYyRyyOaqBbQtGPdlRf69lPMtie26XoC_tE6P0PSLddXAgAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkvpLtkdvSAhUryoMKHeBeDoQQri4IFw>
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