Post Your Favorite Lines!

Back in December, Apple Pie posted this about Grounded:

“I am alive today because I was grounded.”  Fave line ever!

I’m inviting you to comment here about your fave lines from this year’s list.  Please include the book it came from, and the reason why it caught your attention.

 

Add comment Posted in  Uncategorized January 3, 2012

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

by Tom Angleberger origami yoda

Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.

103 comments Posted in  Strange Case of Origami Yoda  Tagged:  , , June 30, 2011

The Danger Box

by Blue Balliett  danger box

In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.

41 comments Posted in  Danger Box  Tagged:  , , June 30, 2011

Murder Afloat

by Jane Leslie Conly  murder afloat

In the 1870s, Benjamin Franklin Orville, a boy from a wealthy Baltimore family, is kidnapped and forced to work on an oyster dredger whose captain has no qualms about murdering any crewman who fails to meet his demands.

34 comments Posted in  Murder Afloat  Tagged:  , , June 30, 2011

Jake

by Audrey Couloumbis  jake

When ten-year-old Jake’s widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.

42 comments Posted in  Jake  Tagged:  , June 30, 2011

Out of My Mind

by Sharon M. Draper out of my mind

Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

61 comments Posted in  Out of My Mind  Tagged:  , June 30, 2011

Mockingbird

by  Kathryn Erskine  mockingbird

Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.

43 comments Posted in  Mockingbird  Tagged:  , , , June 30, 2011

Dark Life

by Kat Falls  dark life

When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier’s underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

63 comments Posted in  Dark Life  Tagged:  , , , June 30, 2011

Belly Up

by Stuart Gibbs  belly up

Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo’s star attraction–Henry the hippopotamus–is murdered.

94 comments Posted in  Belly Up  Tagged:  , , June 30, 2011

Dream of Night

by Heather Henson  dream of night

Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.

33 comments Posted in  Dream of Night  Tagged:  , , , June 30, 2011

Turtle in Paradise

by Jennifer L. Holm  turtle

In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.

30 comments Posted in  Turtle in Paradise  Tagged:  , , June 30, 2011

The Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt

by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel  moxie

On her first day of boarding school, a thirteen-year-old girl who feels boring and invisible decides to change her personality to match her unusual name.

25 comments Posted in  Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt  Tagged:  , , , June 30, 2011

Stuck on Earth

by David Klass  stuck

On a secret mission to evaluate whether the human race should be annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old boy.

22 comments Posted in  Stuck On Earth  Tagged:  , , June 30, 2011

Grounded

by Kate Klise  grounded

After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn’s life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town’s new crematorium.

31 comments Posted in  Grounded  Tagged:  , , June 30, 2011

The Year of Goodbyes

by Debbie Levy  goodbyes

Using her mother’s poetry album, Levy recounts the story of eleven-year-old Jutta’s life in Germany in 1938 as the country descends into madness.

23 comments Posted in  Year of Goodbyes  Tagged:  , , , , June 30, 2011

Touch Blue

by Cynthia Lord  touch blue

When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island’s one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child to increase the school’s population.

37 comments Posted in  Touch Blue  Tagged:  , , , , June 30, 2011

Hero

by Mike Lupica  hero

Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President’s globe-trotting troubleshooter until “the Bads” killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.

66 comments Posted in  Hero  Tagged:  , June 30, 2011

Sources of Light

by Margaret McMullan  sources

Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother’s and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.

15 comments Posted in  Sources of Light  Tagged:  , , , June 30, 2011

Sugar and Ice

by Kate Messner sugar and ice

When Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva offers twelve-year-old farm girl Claire a scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid, she encounters a world of mean girls on ice, where competition is everything.

27 comments Posted in  Sugar and Ice  Tagged:  , June 30, 2011

Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford

by Don Mitchell  driven

A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man’s toy into affordable necessity.

17 comments Posted in  Driven  Tagged:  , June 30, 2011

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot

by Sy Montgomery  kakapo

On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 Kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands; now a team of scientists is trying to restore the Kakapo population.

26 comments Posted in  Kakapo Rescue  Tagged:  , June 30, 2011

The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester

by Barbara O’Connor  owen jester

After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.

38 comments Posted in  Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester  Tagged:  , June 29, 2011

Half Brother

by Kenneth Oppel  half brother

In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project–an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills–he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.

42 comments Posted in  Half Brother  Tagged:  , June 29, 2011

Star in the Forest

by Laure Resau  star in the forest

After eleven-year-old Zitlally’s father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park’s forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.

21 comments Posted in  Star in the Forest  Tagged:  , , June 29, 2011

Ninth Ward

by Jewell Parker Rhodesninth ward

In New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.

14 comments Posted in  Ninth Ward  Tagged:  , June 29, 2011

The Grimm Legacy

by Polly Shulmangrimm

New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the “New-York Circulating Material Repository,” and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.

44 comments Posted in  Grimm Legacy  Tagged:  June 29, 2011

Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze

by Alan Silberberg  milo

In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the “One Eyed Jack” of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.

56 comments Posted in  Milo  Tagged:  , , June 29, 2011

After Ever After

by Jordan Sonnenblick  after ever after

Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen who is studying drums in Africa.

64 comments Posted in  After Ever After  Tagged:  , , , June 29, 2011

Smile

by Raina Telgemeiersmile

In this graphic memoir, Telgemeier recounts the dental hell and accompanying social problems she went through as an adolescent.

171 comments Posted in  Smile  Tagged:  , , June 29, 2011

One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garciacrazy summer

In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

29 comments Posted in  One Crazy Summer  Tagged:  , , June 29, 2011

The Prince of Mist

by Carlos Ruiz Zafonprince mist

In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and his sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with their new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.

25 comments Posted in  Prince of Mist  Tagged:  , June 29, 2011

Make Sure Your Comments Count!

Please remember:

  • Comments will not appear until they have been approved by a moderator.
  • Keep your comments (and nicknames) appropriate.
  • **No Spoilers!** (don’t give the endings away).
  • Do not use too many exclamation points. Lines & lines of uninterrupted punctuation make the blog hard to read.
  • Make sure your post makes sense. Gibberish is unhelpful & inappropriate.
  • Posts should be about DCF books.
  • IP addresses are recorded. If we receive many inappropriate comments from one site, we might need to ban everyone using those computers. Please be thoughtful of your fellow readers.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions!

3 comments Posted in  Uncategorized November 11, 2008


Categories

Themes

Recent Comments