First Lines Contest

Many editors judge a manuscript by its first line, so writers work hard at making their first lines "pop." See if you can match the first line with the Class of 2k7 book. Whoever gets the most right will win a fabulous collection of 2k7 ARCs!

There is still time to enter!

  1. As an interactive horror experience, with beasts from Hell, mayhem, more, and dismemberment, it was an impressive event.
  2. Augie Boretski snuck out.
  3. Boom Broom awoke to find his little sister, Mertyle, looking for spots.
  4. Corrine tried to sit, but weakness washed over her.
  5. Day 1 <-- wait, that is so stupid -- Day 1 would be 100 million years ago when time began and it would mean nothing happened before... but PLENTY has happened.
  6. Dear Mr. McGarnacle, thanks for talking to me and Quinn the other day, to break the news that our triplet-sister was missing from school.
  7. For as long as I'd been playing basketball, all I'd ever wanted to be was a gym rat.
  8. "Four-ball, side pocket." Aislinn pushed the cue forward with a short, quick thrust; the ball dropped into the pocket with a satisfying clack.
  9. He wants to know why it happens.
  10. Hypothetical Question of the Week: If you were forced to have an extra body part implanted on your back, which would you choose? A finger, ear, breast, or nose?
  11. I don't think I'm abnormally obsessive.
  12. I guess I kept hoping some kind of miracle would happen.
  13. I hurry down the cold hospital corridor and barge through the automatic doors of the Emergency Department.
  14. I lean over the table so my father will know I'm talking to him.
  15. I want to make a friend.
  16. I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick, parked next to the old Chart House down in Montana at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night.
  17. I'm Ida May and there's one thing I know. Fourth grade isn't fourth at all.
  18. In the darkness, the heart of the fairy tale waited...
  19. In the quiet hour before dawn, Doucette Aigleron crept from her bed.
  20. It was the first Sunday of summer break, and I was in a hurry to finish my chores so I could call Khalfani to ride bikes.
  21. Last week Bruce kicked me in the balls and all his buddies were there laughing and I started crying.
  22. Leah Greene is dead.
  23. Marina cringed as her monstous purple suitcase slid down the baggage ramp and landed with a sickening thud on top of a small carry-on.
  24. Most boys his age had never touched paper.
  25. My daddy used to play chess to calm his nerves after workin' all day in a room with no windows.
  26. Okay, I’m sitting on the edge of my bed, listening to Beethoven and scribbling in my notebook, when Momma shuffles up behind me and smacks me in the head.
  27. People did not usually travel down Route 64 stuffed inside wooden crates.
  28. Pocket aces, Shushie dealt me two aces: a club and a diamond.
  29. Popularity is a drug. You get a taste of it and suddenly the looks you get from people, the way you get treated, the things you get away with…you need it.
  30. "Sir?" she repeats. "How soon do you want it to get there?"
  31. Sometimes I can still feel my right hand, like a best friend; weighted, warm.
  32. The package came during the Hour of Reflection, that sacred time after dinner when we peruse goals accomplished during the day and set goals for the day to come.
  33. This is such a movie moment.
  34. Two people are dead.
  35. You wake up and you're fourteen.
  36. "You've got to be kidding me," the bouncer said, folding his arms across his massive chest.
  1. BAD GIRLS CLUB by Judy Gregerson
  2. BEAUTY SHOP FOR RENT by Laura Bowers
  3. BEFORE AFTER AND SOMEBODY IN BETWEEN by Jeannine Garsee
  4. BIG SLICK by Eric Luper
  5. BLOOD BROTHERS by S. A. Harazin
  6. BLOOM by Elizabeth Scott
  7. BRENDAN BUCKLEY'S UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT by Sundee T. Frazier
  8. CARPE DIEM by Autumn Cornwell
  9. CHESS RUMBLE by G. Neri
  10. CITY OF BONES by Cassandra Clare
  11. ELLIE MCDOODLE: HAVE PEN, WILL TRAVEL by Ruth McNally Barshaw
  12. FIRST LIGHT by Rebecca Stead
  13. GIRL OVERBOARD by Aimee Ferris
  14. HEAD CASE by Sarah Aronson
  15. IN THE SERPENT'S COILS by Tiffany Trent
  16. INTO THE WILD by Sarah Beth Durst
  17. KIMCHI AND CALAMARI by Rose Kent
  18. LESSONS FROM A DEAD GIRL by Jo Knowles
  19. ME AND THE PUMPKIN QUEEN by Marlane Kennedy
  20. MY LAST BEST FRIEND by Julie Bowe
  21. NO CASTLES HERE by A.C.E. Bauer
  22. PROM DATES FROM HELL by Rosemary Clement-Moore
  23. REALITY LEAK by Joni Sensel
  24. REVENGE OF THE HOMECOMING QUEEN by Stephanie Hale
  25. SHARK GIRL by Kelly Bingham
  26. SO NOT THE DRAMA by Paula Chase
  27. STORY OF A GIRL by Sara Zarr
  28. TALL TALES by Karen Day
  29. THE PENGUINS OF DOOM by Greg R. Fishbone
  30. THE SWAN MAIDEN by Heather Tomlinson
  31. THIRTEEN REASONS WHY by Jay Asher
  32. THIS IS WHAT I DID by Ann Dee Ellis
  33. TIPS ON HAVING A GAY (ex) BOYFRIEND by Carrie Jones
  34. TO CATCH A MERMAID by Suzanne Selfors
  35. TOBY WHEELER: EIGHTH GRADE BENCHWARMER by Thatcher Heldring
  36. WICKED LOVELY by Melissa Marr

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