[ISLMA-Share] Great First Lines

Thu Mar 16 11:02:39 CDT 2017

Thanks Kathy!!

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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
>>
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