Bridge School Library Students' Favorite First Lines

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Students' Favorite First Lines

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Bridge School Students' Favorite First Lines

      by Mrs. Childs' 3rd graders:

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.
      from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane all you have to do is ask a policeman at the crossroads.
      from Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

"What's that noise?" asked Jean.
      from A Castle of Bone by Penelope Farmer

"Don't look at him," Ben whispered.
      from It Goes Eeeeeeeee! by Jamie Gilson

"Gramma, is that man following us?"
      from In the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville

Pew! Barber ran out onto the front porch.
      from The Trouble with Magic by Ruth Chew

No, in those days no one ever thought of such a peril to the existence of the human race.
      from Monster Museum by Alfred Hitchcock

The last time we saw Charlie, he was riding high above his hometown in the great glass elevator.
      from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

Before my brother and I found the strange little creature under the sink we were a normal happy family.
      from It Came from Beneath the Sink by R.L. Stine

"You're the what?" The dinner plate young Richard Morgan held dripped rinse-water on the kitchen linoleum as he stared suspiciously at his father.
      from Ghost Lane! by Jane Louise Curry

Blork was sitting in his secret place holding his poodnoobie.
      from Space Brat by Bruce Coville

"Do you have the lizard snort?" asked Grizelda.
      from The Dragonslayer by Bruce Coville

I didn't like the school in Winter Hill.
      from Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen

It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.
      from The Mystery of the Monster Movie by David Adler

A wild ringing neigh shrilled up from the Spanish galleon.
      from Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

Sometimes Jimmy imagined his father carrying a canoe on his shoulder and sometimes not.
      from The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feffer

It was not a dark and stormy night.
      from The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe


Please send comments and recommendations to Caryn Werlin (Werlin@sch.ci.lexington.ma.us)

Last updated: 15 October 2001

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