[ISLMA-Share] Great First Lines

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Here are ones I used for a faculty game -

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> My personal favorite is from Tuesdays at the Castle. I don't have it in
> front of me, but it's something like "Whenever the castle gets bored, it
> grows another room or two."
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:16 PM Email list for the Illinois School Library
> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> "Someday you will beg for the honor of licking my feet."
>> - I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President
>> by Josh Lieb
>>
>> Butch Wilson
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>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> I have a bulletin board of first lines up right now--just a few more
>> possibilities:
>>
>> "Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.  It did not end
>> well."    Daughter of Smoke and Bone--Laini Taylor
>>
>> "The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs
>> don't got nothing much to say.  About anything."   The Knife of Never
>> Letting Go--Patrick Ness
>>
>> "The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at
>> Disney World."   Going Bovine--Libba Bray
>>
>> "I've confessed to everything and I'd like to be hanged.  Now, if you
>> please."  Chime--Franny Billingsley
>>
>> "You stop fearing the Devil when you're holding his hand."   Between the
>> Devil and the Deep Blue Sea--April Tucholke
>>
>> "They say death aims only once and never misses, but I doubt Ty Yorkshire
>> thought it would strike with a scrubbing brush."   Under a Painted
>> Sky--Stacey Lee
>>
>> "Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would
>> kill her true love."   The Raven Boys--Maggie Stiefvater
>>
>> Deb Bachfischer
>> Metamora High School
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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
>>
>>
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