—Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973) 4. School's out for summer! J.K. Rowling. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) 3.
We've rounded up 10 great stories for book-hungry middle schoolers. 100 Best First Lines from Novels. Tweet. Call me Ishmael. So if your 12 year olds slam the door in your face, make sure they have a book of poetry on the bed to read while they stew about how unfair life is! —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. As you know, I’m a big fan of recommending poetry that is not boring and this list of poetry for middle school contains an abundance of poems that kids ages 10 and up will appreciate. All Votes Add Books To This List. 1. As you teach writing and journaling in your own classroom, we pulled together some of the most memorable, fun, creative, and best opening lines books for children and teens have to offer. Voted on by Goodreads Book Club Members. When I picked up the ARC for Franny Billingsley’s Chime (Dial, April 2011), the first lines popped out and zapped me: “I’ve confessed to everything and I’d like to be hanged. The top 100 books that EHS students should read before they leave middle school. Sometimes, the only handselling a book needs is its opening line. There are thousands of classic opening lines in fiction—A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison come to mind—but often the most well-known are not always the best. "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. Elizabeth Bluemle -- December 7th, 2010. 39 Replies. Now, if you please.” And the rest of the page is even better. 4.74 avg rating — 242,965 ratings. First sentences, of course, have different functions—to amuse, to frighten, to mystify—and the mechanics a writer uses to achieve this connection vary from genre to genre. 6. A screaming comes across the sky. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes—though for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well. Great First Lines. That means swimsuits, beach trips, summer camp, and loads of summer reading. It can stick with you for days, weeks, even years. 1: Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7) by. The very first sentence of a story can be extremely powerful. Read more […]