That’s when he started running his workshop out of our yard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I started a petition after you left yesterday to get you back into school. All the sixth graders signed it.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She got right back in his face and started shouting at him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He began at the beginning and spoke it from start to finish in the same words. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course were not going to leave well enough alone. We’re going to start up our spy hunt again first thing tomorrow.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Big Ma stepped away from me and started turning in circles, wringing her hands. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

By the time the three of them sat down on a bench, Joaquin bookended by his two sisters, his breath was starting to come back a little. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Papa said Lord make us thankful for these and all our blessin’s for Christ sake a-men and started slicing the ham. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Randolph seemed to know each word, prompting her gently if she started to stumble on an unfamiliar one, and joining her, powerfully and musically, on his own favorite lines. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Some people start committing crimes when they’re young and keep on committing them, progressing from burglary to robbery to murder. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the bombings started, villagers fled for the mountains, as the government had hoped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Liam told me you’re not playing football. Good for you. Ever since he started, his grades have been abysmal. I’m tempted to make him quit the team.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They lunged at her, and everything started to spin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I invented it forty-one years ago. Had this lightweight, skin so thin would start bleeding if his mother kissed him. Lightning Lou Epp, real good little—" "I need a headguard," said Red. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the beautiful fairy and a number of giants, everyone started back to the house, including Father. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shook the sun out of his eyes and started removing the staples that held the wires in place on the chewed-up post. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Luke turned and started back to the living room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It was a fairness issue, honey. It wasn’t right that you got suspended while nothing happened to the boy who started the fight.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was when I started spending lots of time with Roger. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Polly changed quickly into the stiff black uniform, inwardly praying that perhaps this would be the start of her move up to the main house and out of the kitchen with the slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I start pulling the food out of the trash, putting it back on the shelf, trying to match her pace. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As cheerful voices and bursts of laughter from my Worlds Party floated in through my window, mixing with the rhythm of “Burn,” I collapsed onto my bedroom floor and started bawling. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’d always been a little grumpy, but then he started drinking a lot. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually the window sills were completely done—two coats—and my mother had Nathan start on the wood railing of our front porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Instead of writing the information in notebooks, I started to use a little tape recorder. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I know lots of women who never wear the hijab. Even my mama didn’t start wearing it until after she got married.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Someone suggested that one person hold a butterfly net behind the tailpipe while another person start the car, which would allow the engine exhaust to blast the ferret out into the net. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When a confused dream woke her with a start sometime in the night, Mo was still sitting up in bed, the open book in his hand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They started up the steps, and the closer they got, the more Needles stepped back. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see them all just fine, but if I focused on any one of them in particular, they started looking . . . transparent. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As the females greeted one another, he got a good running start and re-created Anastasia’s charge. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had been waiting for her to start shouting, so I could shout back and cry and blame her for all my misery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Sourmelina’s belief that the soul didn’t enter the body until a child started speaking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I knew that was a lie, but 1 helped Jack get up, and we started walking over to Amos. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dad mumbled something about finding a phone to call the insurance company while Dr. Somerset started toward another family. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd started to notice him, started cheering him on. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He ran down the gravel to the main road and then started running west away from Washington and Millsburg—and the old Perkins place. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A hot, angry knot started forming in Pong's stomach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I started shaking my head, lost yet again, but there it was: The same butterfly tattoo. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I started to feel that fluttery anxiousness, so I stopped thinking and tried to pay attention to the parents’ conversation. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Subsistence is a convenient facet of society with which to start, since it in turn affected other facets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ask as he starts to head back to the door. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was going to start by telling you that Raizel is investigating a lead down in the Stockyards.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I started up the embankment, slipping in the mud. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She started laughing again, and that made me laugh, too. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I want you to listen to me. To finish what I started to say once.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Look. I came, didn’t I? Don’t start pushing me before I’m hardly off the plane. My god, I’ve been gone thirteen years, and you still think you can tell me what to do.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I feel as though I might start crying. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She jerks her hand free and starts walking. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Who’d have thought you hadn’t better sense than to start home in a perfect blizzard?’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke the next day with a start, to chill sunlight and the thump of a stereo down the hall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The skinny bald man settled himself comfortably against a stump and started drinking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was like starting school all over again, having unsuspecting adults pass me on the stairway. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“And I see your wounds are healed up now. So you can start doing your share of the work in this house—” The girl was nodding quickly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She handed them to the man, who grabbed the autopsy report book and started reading. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I start hanging out across the street from the Quinns’ house. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called it the hardest sudoku ever made, with only 23 of the 81 squares filled in at the start. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And once that starts, I know the teacher will have a point to prove. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It only makes sense to start with the worst of the worst. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Walk up to her and say, ‘Hey, mama, let’s you and me start working on the lambada so we look good for the natives at the dance.’ 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thunder! That was thunder!” everybody started saying to each other in voices that were giggly with relief. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Screw that," Cal said, "I'm starting at the top. And I'm getting you a girl, too." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Now everyone would know he’d been out and start in on him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sookie started to jog ahead and I felt torn between wanting to get inside the arc right away and not wanting to leave Dad and Mr. Patterson behind. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We started seeing other flocks of geese in the sky. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I suggested that we split up and start searching, but Dad said no way, it was too risky. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It is in these moments that I wish for John Kwang to start speaking the other tongue we know; somehow our English can’t touch what I want to say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting under the gulmohur tree, I start singing my favorite songs. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“So, everybody relax a bit while I take attendance, and then when we’re finished with that, I’ll start telling you about all the fun stuff we’re going to be doing this year—in English.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I awaken with a start and imagine I hear the goat still picking at the cliffwall, climbing to the mere. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started ducking beneath arms and darting into whatever space she could find, making her way toward the rear of the crowd. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the longest morning of my life, I printed out all the letters I’d written, signed them and started delivering them face to face, like a man, like a soldier. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he got punched, Sal started playing basketball in the alley behind our building. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Farmer started by asking what I was going to say about Che Guevara. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She quickly pulled out her books and started reading, surely to avoid having to talk to me anymore. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When she was sure of the blue line of flame, she finished her sewing and started in on the last preparations for dinner. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He covered her head with his fingers and started to twist her neck. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even before the Quarter Quell, people were starting to stock up on scarce supplies.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Later she said, “Sandra, what did you do? Why did this girl hug me and start crying?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Black started to laugh, a horrible, mirthless laugh that filled the whole room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“If they was black they could slip in some signifying along with the laughing and dancing and then skip right to the fighting before the drinking even started.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t think she would win, but she did think she could use the election as a way to start a conversation about topics she considered important, including female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Savage violently started and, uncovering his face, looked round. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would start to eat them, and if he ate them, he got full and wouldn’t dig anymore, so I took them away from him until he found me all I wanted. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started the next morning, with lunch at the nearby Eagle Pub and some gooseberry pie. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I swear to God, Mr. Wellins looked so emotionally moved, I thought he was going to start sobbing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I saw that in the movies. They shot the start of the movie from the roof. Then they went down in the street and shot the same thing. It was cool.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a swift motion, Uncle Phil grabs me around the waist and starts tickling me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He started to yell for Dusty, thought better of it, and went to work arranging the dirty stuff himself. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Daddy started the truck and turned east on the state road, just two lanes in those days. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

A scholar named Thomas Cole, however, published an ingenious speculative essay in 1991.2 Corax’s name—giving extra piquancy to the judge’s joke—means “crow” in Greek, and Cole starts out arguing from common sense. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I walked over and started to scoop some back into the tub. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started thinking about my life, the important things in it. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antigravity starts up, and the shuttle slows, then stops, hovering at the same level as the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the tractor started forward again, I could see in the rear view mirror that he was looking after me, curiously. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He reached to take off her pants, but she started crying really hard, so he reached for his own. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

At times like that, her cheerful facade would crack, and she’d start crying and confess to Lori that life in the streets could be hard, just really hard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d started off walking briskly, anger fueling my legs, but after a few blocks, I ran out of steam. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She started organizing information into carefully labeled folders: one about cells, another about cancer, another full of definitions of legal terms like statute of limitations and patient confidentiality. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My husband started to take many business trips to the north. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started the engine and must have driven a mile in the wrong direction before I gave any thought to where I was going. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The computer starts humming, and I ask, "Do you use the Net much? It's pretty visual." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several meters behind us, one of the Green Police has turned around, starting in our direction. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As we got into our costumes Zora and I would fire up a joint to start the night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You knew that force field was there, didn’t you? Right at the last second? You started to give a warning.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all, if she’d keep this enemy close, by George’s logic, she’d start to appreciate all that snakes do in her garden. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It might be like starting all over from nothing, like closing a book and opening another one. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“When you started using your head, what did you think?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even through the rattling start, the no back seat, the frozen moment, Axel starts to make his way around the back of the Forester. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My head started swimming, my chest burning, and my legs got all gooey, like all the running was turning my bones to liquid or something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But once we got farther south and crossed into Tangerine County, we did start to see groves of citrus trees, and they were an amazing sight. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Dari’s last name starts with a K, his locker is in the exact middle of the hallway—halfway between Twig’s and my lockers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The stonecutter waited for Amah to awaken before he started work. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now that we had the pot barrier broken, it became a magnificent haze of yelling back at the TV; we stopped calling it “watching movies”; we started calling it “chilling.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could start a new summer notebook, and we could mail it around to each other—like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, but different. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

With my feet wrapped in white, gauzy bandages, I started to put my socks back on, but they were a complete mess. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mom started to visit more often, but she was still terribly unhappy and couldn’t bring herself to take me home. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My mother had started crying long before I had completed my story. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, the Specials would think she’d fallen off, and start their search back there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This put him right back where he’d been in 1904, arriving in a new land and starting over from economic zero. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was drowned out at that, the crowd shouting at her, and Moss recognized the start of a wave of panic in Esperanza’s mom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Players soon started to follow Prince’s lead and challenge her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I expressed to him my vision for the church and the needs I saw, and he helped me start a campaign in Birmingham to raise the money. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We start to breathe together in the dark. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He starts walking again and I chase after. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It galled her when they started moving into that section of town, and she always said it was their fault that Welch had gone downhill. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad really wants to quit his job and find a new accounting firm or maybe even start his own—he’s a CPA—but he can’t because we get our health insurance through his work. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I started to hold my breath but realized that was foolish—he knew I was there. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wonder where it started, my decline; I wonder at what point I could have halted it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This whole therapy thing has become a lot less awful since it started involving listening to music and staring out the window. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It helped me to hear the Christian way, because I needed help, I needed to let Mameh go, and that’s when I started to become a Christian and the Jew in me began to die. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrach started to climb back into the wagon as he spoke; then, changing his mind, he turned back and placed his hands quickly on Ellen’s shoulders. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started stuffing things into his own backpack. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Kids are starting to swarm all around us, heading into the building. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But Fern was suddenly full of questions, starting with Big Ma’s wigs, scarves, and hair. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s three miles,” Frankie said, but after the next coach barreled past, he started walking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need him. You have me again. We’re starting fresh.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Bill and I talked it over and decided it was our only chance for food, so we picked a likely-looking tree and started chopping. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this was a sign, to quit now and start her blog. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My palms start biting at me, and my mouth feels like I sucked on cotton balls. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She started interviewing black residents who had been mistreated on the city buses and writing down their stories. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Some kids at the back of the room start to snicker and make smart remarks. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

After bailing him out a few times, Deborah started leaving him in jail to teach him a lesson, saying, “You just stay there till your bail come down to where you can afford it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She started up the hill, following the deserted path as it wound among the wind-tossed trees. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was starting to sound like General Motors or something. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

She was set to run in a competition, and then a gun went off to mark the start of the race. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know when Marcus stopped being himself and started pretending to be the person others expected him to be. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And the shouting turned to bellows and Mom started crying, and I knew I was in so much trouble! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But when I’m playing against somebody really tough I start looking for the inch. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be a good move as a new member of the varsity team to start accusing my teammates. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But now that school was starting, we’d agreed I could work at night. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He started softly but the exhortations of the congregation—“Talk! Talk!” and “Alright! Alright!” and “Take your time, son! Take your time!”—got him going in a sweet and easy rhythm. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get on our Chromebooks and start typing the poems, and Angel’s way faster than me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Table 4.1: The examples given name the note reached if one starts on C, and goes up the named interval. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He started making cereal and cooking for the kids who would wander by. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as we got on board the Hornet, it started steaming as fast as it could for Hawaii, where the MQF would be transferred to a cargo jet for the trip back to Houston. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It starts out small and thin, like a rapier’s blade, but I push more of the splendor into it, until I’m holding what looks like a massive broadsword. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A second later she grabbed a basketball and started dribbling. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Without a faculty sponsor, there's no chance of starting a club, he tells us. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It was to show you. It always starts with a small thing. For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

By the time I turned my attention back to him, Chubs had collected himself enough to start poking and prodding me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then I started going through the same routine all over again with Mary. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I hope he understands that while it started out as a threat, it’s since transformed into a promise. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He looked back at us all skeptical, then picked up his folder and started riffling through his papers again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He started up the car, and we drove home in silence that was, for a change, somewhat comfortable. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Maya said, and then she started to cry. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Slapping his knee, he picked up the wholesale order form and I started back to the storage room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So we started up a specialty business of children’s christening gowns. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were starting to file into class, so the Colonel leaned in toward me and whispered, “If any of ’em are in this class, let me know, okay? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They had to pull their legs in because Mrs. Korshak would not start the bus rolling until everyone was seated. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gave the book back to me, and they started talking about prom again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

As the seats around the gate started to fill, Augustus said, “I’m gonna get a hamburger before we leave. Can I get you anything?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ronan takes a running start and swings the ball out in front of him, but doesn’t let go. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t enough to pay for a round of IVF, but it would have been a start. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I had to move to Nairobi to start my temporary job. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Guerrilla warfare was a possibility, but since the ANC had been reluctant to embrace violence at all, it made sense to start with the form of violence that inflicted the least harm against individuals: sabotage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My laughter matches his, starting in my belly and bubbling out. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I am very glad you understand how silly it was for either of you to start climbing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“And your dad started hearing rumors in town, about other babies...” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It all started when I opened the present from my father. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then for some reason I started to think about hurdlers. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When I get into the front seat, Mom starts crying. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When school had started up that year, Grace hadn’t gone back with everyone else. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I know this is crazy, but did the sun start shining while I was sick?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Around ten or eleven, the drivers would start coming back from their morning routes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The people I lived with. It’s them. I know it’s them.They turned weird, started ... doing things. Saying trees and plants and animals are magic. They left me because they said I was ... evil.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Crosby led her back in and she started up the ladder, the wind snapping her dress around her legs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started with a creamy chestnut soup, crusty hot bread, and greens dressed with apples ami pine nuts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Naw. He got up and started singing ‘Nearer My God to Thee.’ The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mike fell to his knees and started searching for his own coins just as Kyle shouted, “Got it!” and plucked a 1982 quarter out of the pile. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know it at the time, but once alone, we both started to cry. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I think Fm going to like it here, I said to myself, and started dragging my plastic bags down the hallway to my new bedroom. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When she starts to get close, I start running with my itchy hand stuck out behind me, hoping and praying we’ll connect. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He started down a side hall, leading the way; Rick followed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He started to turn and go back into the woods but he didnt. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He pulled Devil’s Shoestrings out of the basket one by one, then started to braid them in a circle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He first cut off the bush at the base, then started on the root, but no matter how deep he dug, he never could seem to get to the bottom of it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Come on. Let's go over to the Iruña and start," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Almost on cue, everyone in the squadron stopped talking to him and started staring at him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It had been a depressing day for him, after such a bright start. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

"It is a bit strong just at the start," Brett said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Tateh was standing right next to me, so I grabbed a rag and started wiping the counter, edging close to them, eavesdropping. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And school’s go’n start up again in a few weeks, Miss Love. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But when I got home the pain started to come back and I had to lie on the sofa for two days and take lots of painkillers... The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she started sliding books around on the shelf. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was starting to bum my cheeks, and I could feel drops of sweat gathering in my eyebrows. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She’d started last night after they got back from Bayside Press, and now it was almost the end of lunch period and she still wasn’t done. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Intensely frustrated with his inability to connect with young people, Nixon tried to get a conversation started. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Outside, the leaves on the tree started blowing, silently, like the man’s laughter. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then she starts sobbing, which is out of place. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I would groan and beg him not to call me a jewel, cuz that’s for girls, so then he started saying, “My strong prince.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She swung her legs off my lap and started to roll out of the swing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The evening had started out so well, too. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She’d only taken one stride when the house lit up like a municipal Christmas tree, and a siren started blaring. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s okay, don’t talk. We’re almost safe now—you, me, and the Lady,” Petra said soothingly She took off her jacket, wrapped Calder in it, and started quickly down the ladder to get help. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They laughed like this, at each other’s reflection in the mirror, their eyes tearing, and the moment was so natural, so effortless, that suddenly Mariam started telling her about Jalil, and Nana, and the jinn. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I admired that from the start, to be able to make such an entrance without blushing and stumbling and arraying the floor with your books and the contents of your pocketbook. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The Daughters of Mary started showing up in the parlor before 10:00 a.m. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point after the nicknaming, our Radar grew about six inches and started wearing contacts, so I suppose that 3. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He started to pull the fish in to have him alongside so that he could pass a line through his gills and out his mouth and make his head fast alongside the bow. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was covered with blood but I didn’t know if it was nose blood or blood from after she started eating me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” I tossed the remote to Zooey and started to stand, but she said, “Don’t leave on my account. I have so much studying to do.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

After a few halting circumnavigations of the nursery, Penelope felt she had started to get the hang of it. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As we approached the church I started to shake and sweat, and just before we reached the church doorway, I stepped out of line. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have about $100,000 equity in the house and about $10,000 in college funds they started for the girls last year. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were interested in Ivory Christian, and they were particularly interested in two other black players who were only juniors, Hill and Comer, because it was never too early to start laying the foundations. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa had started coming around again while we were still there—he did live with Adele again after we left—and maybe the authorities found out. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone starts eating it, but the mood in the room is grim. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Well, he has more than you, for a start." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Gradually, it all started coming back, the weight of things. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The game started at ten thirty a.m., and I shivered as I sat on the bleachers, wishing I’d put on a warmer coat. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The organizers started working on the problems immediately. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I started to say something more, to plead my case further, but he turned to start his lesson. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then she took a deep breath, and, with a whisper, she started the story. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She nodded toward where Lucky Strike had started a Fates shrine in the trees. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But when I got here, and started helping, I realized that most of these people are kind, and just grateful for a hot meal and someone to talk to. We all can relate to that.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I started cleaning the camp area, or what was left of it I piled all the palm fronds, frayed by the wind, in one place; sticks of wet driftwood in another. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Must be nice,” Ron said abruptly, when they had sat down and started serving themselves roast beef and Yorkshire puddings. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Wow, you two have already started talking about me as if I’m not in the room,” Moss said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“He told me in his office after we left the ditch and jumped inside. He told me not to tell anyone he told me, so don’t start shooting your mouth off.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He started to cry, his sounds drowned out by the wind. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was something Ty'ree had started saying right after Mama died. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then he started clicking his tongue against the roof of his mouth. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Rather than steal from the till, I started to give wrong change to customers for my booze money. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sat with them until the rush started. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But instead of hopping a freight, it was the Internet they’d ride out of town to Chicago, and it was the Middleton High Geek Club that started the trip. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started with the rain and the hunger. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We finally finished the day in the late afternoon, before the sun started to set, and the air cooled enough to carry a slight chill. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His nose started bleeding again, so I got him another paper towel. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We caught the bus back home, and when we arrived, my mom started preparations for Enrique’s favorite meal, which was pork tamales. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was actually three stories high ’cause the other end of the barn started on a hillside and this side was at the bottom of the slope. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I started to think seriously about how I could become the person I wanted to be, I looked around at some of the people who’d had the biggest impact on my life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Tally started to speak, but her jaw clenched with pain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was only when a couple of them broke and started to bleed that he thought he’d better stop, since he was not sure how much blood he had left to lose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She would have been about ten years old, just starting to write her little stories. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m doing a salsa crawl, starting with Chevys. Because I’m broke. Like, I have no idea where I’m going to sleep tonight.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Turner’s mother raised an eyebrow and remarked that he had started to become a real Maine boy, thinking of the tide and the weather. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he’d push me out the front door and tell me to leave, but as I started walking down the street, he would come running after me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Some small plain ones. We’ll learn about patterns later. Cast on a row of, oh, let’s say forty stitches, and we ’ll start at the calf.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I started yelling at him. ‘You are going to refuse to take care of a baby? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’d started digging through the mail when someone came up from behind and startled the frijoles out of me. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"Maybe that's why Thresh looks better fed now than when we started the Games." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We start washing tiles again and it grows quiet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he had a better start, Dandelion kept in the open and ran down the field to the hedge beside the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chips of ebony, he found, float if they are dry to start with and are placed gently on the surface of the water—but so do metal needles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It twitched against me and started to harden. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His pallbearers—cousins, his dad, an uncle, friends I’d never seen—came and got him, and they all started walking toward the hearse. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I turned around and started running back to her house. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cesar, a Doberman pinscher guard dog that had a soft spot for me, started barking and tugging at my diapers, trying to drag me off the road. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

First my starting position was taken from me, and now Erin. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in the house, I go straight to my room, open a sketchpad, and start drawing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I flopped the tablecloth into the rinse tub and started in on a shift that had gotten mixed in with the table linens. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d learned they were coming when our mother started fussing about the menu the week before. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then, just when I thought we were going to go on down and get back to the block party, Peaches started back up the stairs again. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After only five minutes, I felt my eyelids grow heavy, and my bed started calling my name. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the gallery-office cell, started a new page in the logbook, and then leaned back to savor my coffee and catch up on recent events on the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should tell her to let go of me; it’s starting to hurt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I feel bad, so I start to search. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the night of July 3, the boys had grown nervous and unsettled, the magnitude of what was at stake starting to sink in. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It started with the sun flares,” the woman said, her gaze growing distant. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I started putting my guitar in the case. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I pulled one out of the group with my foot and started dribbling it around slowly. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When we leave the restaurant, Dad and I start walking home in the wrong direction, and we don’t even realize it until we’re in front of Sixth Sense Driving School on the corner. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He turns back to the window and starts flailing his arms too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Samuel started when he heard a voice speaking out of the blackness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dusk, and several parties have already started at the performers’ end of the train, including—I can’t help but notice—one in Marlena and August’s car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As we proceed to the Hub, I start to understand the extent of the camp and how the razor-wired, sky-high security fence pens us in for miles, cameras trained on us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He told everyone else to go start their warm-up laps, but he asked me to stay behind. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Bloom, addressing us in the chapel on the eve of our graduation, asked for a show of hands from everyone in the room who was scared about starting work on Monday. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sets a bottle of goopy white stuff next to the sink and starts wetting her hair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Dr. Howard told me that even if the light box works, it will take a few months to start seeing any improvement, but I still glance down at myself afterward. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dribbling slowly, Ben started toward his father, changing hands with each dribble, hoping to catch Bull with his weight shifted in the wrong direction. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the exact moment when she felt like a woman, she locked herself in her old room, which still held the mural she had started so many years before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s back in the dining room that Miss Celia starts shaking her head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead and start,” his mother says, still hovering between the dining room and the kitchen, finishing up the last of the samosas. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put my pretend pencil over the glass case again, and I started drawing the wings. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I know I don’t have a choice, so like my mom and Lee Lee keep telling me, I start speaking. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She tore the cloth into small strips, then ate some stew, and started off to hunt birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got her into the car and then ran around to the other side and started it up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My throat was starting to fill up with all the days Mama had been dead and me not crying. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

No way did she start out like me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone started pressing in, trying to get a look at my injuries, but I pushed them away and jumped on my board and took off, fast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t make down my bed because I wanted to start very early. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to build a rocket and I didn’t have a clue where to start. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t hit me too hard, ’cause I were pregnant I guess, but the fights, once they got started up again, kept up. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What the—” she starts, but stops when she sees the little kids. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Fear slowed her, but a different kind of panic got her started again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Trickles of black liquid started running down her face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then, on Day Eight, the humdrum routine that Genie and Ernie were actually starting to like was broken. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes, calculating: he was at Fifty-third Street and the hunt had started last night at Eighteenth Street. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I start to ask her what she means, but she scoots over more, and suddenly her hand is too close to my face and I shift away. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They started, and Sam drew his sword and stood over Frodo; but Strider knelt down swiftly at his side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If he did see the deadness, he must have begun worrying, and maybe it was then that he started feeling sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We watched them start to take the tarps off the field. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Shorty was really serious about nothing except his music, and about working for the day when he could start his own little group to gig around Boston. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he got in himself and started up the engine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When bats started flying around at dusk, he got scared and went on home. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My big sister had been ready to march right out and bang a few heads if a massacre got started. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They will eat up the whole peach and then there’ll be nothing left for us to stand on and they’ll start on us!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I moved through the shots in around-the-world fashion, starting in the right corner and moving to my left, taking a shot every yard or so, until I ended up in the opposite corner. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even if a fifth grader started out the period with a ball, it was sure to be in the hands of a sixth or seventh grader before the hour was half over. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We have enough of a head start. Keep running, it won’t take us long to get there.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I have to read that letter first. I reckon we better go back in there and start.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Memories of their last visit start to hurry me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We were also told that classes would officially start the following day and that we should meet with our counselor to discuss our class schedule. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Lucky for two of ye, the pair that scored the highest in this tryout gets a head start at the next one. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

You start a fire here, the island goes under, and you get nothing but a watery death.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The two of us went back to the main path and started crawling on either side of it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a place where we used to meet when we first started seeing each other. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack told me from the start that this would happen. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very soon you will start to adopt an American accent, because you don’t want customer service people on the phone to keep asking you ‘What? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just as I start to panic, Michael walks over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He sat up, stood up, started pacing around his small room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I'd even started daydreaming about going to France, after my O levels or A levels. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His head started to clear, and his sense of outrage came to a boil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Let’s start by saying, ‘Dear Nancy, you touched me very much with your story about your mother. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She offered one to Margaret, who refused, and started searching for something inside her pocketbook. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What took you so long? I almost started aging.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I started yelling as soon as I came in sight of the house. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grownups climbed slowly into the truck and Wilbur heard the engine start and then heard the truck moving away in low speed. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

After a while I started laughing again ’cause I realized I could sort of smell the red flower a few feet away from my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mom starts playing an episode of one of her political podcasts, the familiar intro music flowing through the sedan’s speakers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were just leaning there, laughing and so on, and then they started crooning, leaning in, heads together, snapping fingers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, sure, she’d always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then the two of them started giving each other those silly little glances and soppy smiles that made us all feel sick. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat starts to swell, and I look away, and when I finally look back, Willem is still holding my eyes, appropriately polite and achingly concerned. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bottles started bubbling, gently at first, but then they began to shake faster and faster until the whole table jitterbugged. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Lost in thought, Victor began to tickle it behind the ears until it started to purr and lick his fingers with its rough tongue. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

People had probably started snooping around—I mean, if I could find his secret blog, I imagine the cops could, too. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a clear, cool day with a very light breeze; there would be no visibility problems this time, and Harry, though nervous, was starting to feel the excitement only a Quidditch match could bring. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what time it was, but the sun was already starting to sink. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I took the ball out and he comes and starts leaning on me like old dudes do when they’re too slow to keep up with you. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’d started walking forward without realizing it and was inches away from plucking the Story Box off the pedestal. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We were going down the stairs into the milling men now and she started to scream, "Pay me then! If he's too good for me, let him pay!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley sighed and started to leave, but was told to stay put. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I will; but mind you are a very good girl, and don’t be afraid of me. Don’t start when I chance to speak rather sharply; it’s so provoking.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Papa starts in on our explanation, but Don Manuel cuts him off. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked him what his problem was and he started talking about how he didn’t have a problem.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

On my first day of field work, after only a few steps in the muddy water, my ankles and toes start to itch. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur quickly gathered up their stuff and started back out. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We settled in our spots as the movie started. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She turned sharply on her heel and started to make her way toward the deserted highway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The vision bursts in front of me; I never know what I'm painting till I start. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All in all, she felt a lot happier than she had the day before the start of any school year in her life. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They started a blog called 50 Homes in 50 States and chronicled their moving adventures. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I guess that is how I started relating to people, mixing with all those groups. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she’d take it out a minute or two later and start all over again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But when their wives start hollering, instead of trying to understand why, the men just go find a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Constance stumbled blearily past without looking at them, and then the two boys started up to S.Q.’s desk. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even remember how the whole thing got started, but it’s obvious that if you’re from one family, you need to be loyal and try to get some payback. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

An Assistant, with a start, bowed respectfully as soon as he saw her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The film focuses around one man who starts going to a single parents meeting, to meet women, one problem He doesnt have a child. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I took another step and the seam widened at the bottom, like a curtain being drawn at the start of a play. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He started shaking so badly I couldn’t bear to look. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The professor started explaining again about what all he expected from us in the course. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Dad swears Mom’s nose is as cute as ever and I don’t notice anything different about it, but she still touches it gingerly when he starts talking about some big new idea he’s got going. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure who started the chat, or who suggested moving the conversation to the phone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She started from her chair on the balcony as he took a seat beside her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what time it is and am starting to fear that Ollie Mae will be upset that I am getting home later than usual. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And if I’d been starting a band right that very minute and needed to give it a true-to-life name, it would be All Hell Raining Down on Kevin. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He started out doing odd jobs, working a sewing machine, things like that,” remembers Bill Atkinson, now an accomplished climber and guide, who also worked at Alp Sports at the time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m carrying the cake as we reenter the room and everyone starts singing “Happy Birthday.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“She started her evening fairly adventurous,” he says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The pastor started off talking about the importance of Juneteenth, equating the plight of black slaves to the Israelites in ancient Egypt. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the feeling of his classmates starting the day without him is replaced by a new feeling, a mystery of sorts. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Appointments started around 8 AM, sometimes earlier, each morning for a week. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it starts even worse, like, “Hello, sir, how can I help you?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I start to bend my knees when, with a pinch, the new jeans stop me, tugging at the crotch. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I start by writing down everything I can remember about the two days before the suspect disappeared. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d both stopped walking, and for some reason, my feet wouldn’t start again. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her ears start to twitch as she gazes back the way we've come. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Officials were worried about retaliation after the attack, and so we were given an opportunity to leave the country and start anew. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It took everything in his power not to run to the reed and start climbing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He’d thought maybe this quest would be a fresh start for him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Henry looks at me like I’m from another galaxy, and I start to feel defensive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The bear’s mouth yawns on either side of me—its jaws start to close. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he would smile and that warm, golden feeling would start at his toes and fill him all the way up to his smile. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, me and Jack started cracking up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He played the opening notes of that song on the keyboard, and John started bopping his head. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Bernard shakes his hand and starts sucking a finger. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He saw me start to get up, he knew the call was for me, but stepped inside the booth, and answered. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me to start the fire in the range, that there’s paper and wood in a box and coal in the coal scuttle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The day was warm and sticky, and she realized with creeping horror that she was starting to stink. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But whenever I’d start a job in a cafeteria, word would get around fast about who I was. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Tali said: “We’ll just sleep here and make an early start in the morning. Let’s go.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll lock myself in and be just fine. You need to go take care of your poor house. But you come right back here if the storm starts to get too bad.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I feel my cheeks start to warm and distract myself with an obscenely long gulp of tea. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then when I’m about a block away, throwing all dignity to the wind, I start checking the pockets of the jacket, finding nothing but a film canister, candy wrappers, a pen. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was swinging a ceremonial mace, and when we saw him, our whole party stood up and started clapping and cheering. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Want a hanky, Potter, in case you start crying in Transfiguration?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But you have to remember that she started it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But years later, after Mom started her own business and put all her girls through school, encouraging us to learn and grow, Grandma said that she could see the value in girls. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Come back in January and let’s start fresh, all right? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s trying to save them from starting their careers in the state penitentiary early. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Agnes jerked the cafeteria bench closer to the table and started to roll up her dragging shirtsleeves. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then Mom started volunteering for them whenever she could, I still hate them, though. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now that we were out of the center, most of the women started moving again. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mortimer and the boy had started a fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But then as I continued to stand there, a curious thing began to take place; that is to say, a deep feeling of triumph started to well up within me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Toby called as the man in the gray suit started down the path. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And then, at that very moment, there’s a clap of thunder overhead and the sky opens up and the rain starts to fall. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Little by little the football teams at Odessa High started changing, and so did the makeup of the student body it served. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t start that again,” Major Sanderson exclaimed with vitriolic scorn, and hurled down his pencil disgustedly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After a second they started running all out, acting like the Devil hisself was on their tail. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He said he was tired of chewing up the road, and the white lines down the middle of the highway were starting to wiggle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

After landing, we grabbed Myron’s car from long-term parking and started up the Garden State Parkway. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I love the cozy feeling of my bedroom when it starts getting colder outside. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were both mixed up with the conservative ethics of Force Majeur against which the King had started his crusade. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think she and Quinton were starting to get into arguments.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He more than kept it, because once spring started one miracle at a time was nothing. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was starting on a new model, in the room with the dolls, drawing it out very carefully on graph paper, first, to see whether it could work. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When the rain starts we cover ourselves with old coal bags and Mr. Hannon turns his pipe upside down in his mouth to keep the tobacco dry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time, the albino started things. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We had been sort of secret friends for a couple of weeks before people really started getting on them about not having a bunch of clothes. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A low rumble starts up, growing until it sounds like a thunderstorm has been unleashed in the amphitheater. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I started getting ready for school in a hurry.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lulu started to play, and I opened my mouth and sang. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in nine years, I start to cry. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Scholars started translating texts into Arabic, and in the ninth century Caliph al-Mamun founded a great library: the House of Wisdom at Baghdad. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Roli points it out and then starts in with mumbo jumbo about summer triangles and degrees of brightness. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The car coughed a couple of times before it started. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I turn left at the next intersection and start down the cracked sidewalk toward the building where Abnegation had its monthly faction-wide meetings. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Joe’s mom got to the basement, we officially started band practice. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

His daddy was smiling, and Beto just knew that he was going to hug him, but then the preacher came up and started shaking Henry’s hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Right away her smile freezes and she gets this half-confused look on her face, and she starts to turn red. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clarke had the heartbreaking task of writing a full inventory of the damage; by half past nine in the morning, her hand was already starting to cramp. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Brambleweft starts to sketch—billowing skirts and cunning little capes, corsets stitched with fanciful creatures. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Bill Cochran walked into his office, and Francis started to repeat the story. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The Godel solution and the cosmic string space-time start out so distorted that travel into the past was always possible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't long after that when the bomb threats started. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Holly also asked Abby and me to start a quilting club at school, and she provided all the fabric. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And it was going well, until Abel started to feel like she was running his business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Why had he been so friendly to Mrs. Sharpe, walking her to the store before Calder started her deliveries? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

That would cause me to start turning sideways, and I might turn all the way around before I got to the Agena, and crash into it with my back. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom would share her progress with me: She started by calling the Zimbabwean embassy in Washington, who suggested calling the American embassy in Harare. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I started dragging things from all over the kitchen and piling them up against the door—a barrel half-filled with drinking water, a scuttle half-filled with coal and several tin chairs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My legs start to shake, every part of me starts to shake. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He started rocking back and forth, gently at first, but then more and more violently so that when he came forward his head knocked against the bare stone of the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stand from my seat, grab my bag from the floor, and start to make my way out of that kitchen. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Because we had two weeks, we had my wife drop us at Caratunk, a remote community on the Kennebec River, thirty-eight miles short of Monson and the official start of the wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as I wade back to shore and pick up my pants, this monkey starts hooting at me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The assembly clapped wildly; Harry started to clap, too, but stopped quickly at the sight of Nick’s face. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The rain came down hard, then tapered off as I started to make supper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All these people with bongos were gathering in the sand straight down the way from us, and this beat started growing, making this hypnotic rhythm. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It started out okay. I bought her a program, a hot dog, even a souvenir foam baseball." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She gave a little start but didn’t say anything. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She reaches the bottom, and there’s this awkward moment where her arms are out like she wants to hug me, but she starts lowering them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And with that, he started to follow the sound. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She told me her doctors started prescribing the drugs in 1997 after what she referred to as “the Gold Digger Situation,” which she refused to tell me about. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mama was probably still at her stall; she’d be home soon to start dinner, but I didn’t care. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes locked on mine and I felt things start melting inside of me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started feeling cranky and irritable most of the time. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Mr. Ray to see and start teasing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My stomach started twisting up with nervousness and excitement and fear and weirdness. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The warm mist blew toward us and people started backing away. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But we didn’t start right away and meanwhile I began to worry about Yang Sze-Fu being a Communist. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree frogs start singing, and I open my eyes. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also planned to go on a mission, and wants to start a family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But it still takes me a few seconds to summon up the words, to figure out where to start. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I stared at him for a few seconds longer, shaking my head, and then started back toward the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I echo, an incredulous smile starting on my face and then fading when I remember that Vivi didn’t bother to tell me the story, even though it must have happened days ago. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He quickly pushed the retract button and the door squealed, then started closing again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

‘They were out hunting in the woods all day. The only things they caught were squirrels. At night they made camp, and the guy who could eat squirrel meat started cooking it over the fire.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But when the students were around the age of eight, real differences started to emerge. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She told him how the rescuers had started up into the blizzard. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Since Ma started letting her stay after school, Sunny's ERC friends are getting her even more fired up about women's rights. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I started to worry that maybe he was having a heart attack or a stroke or something, but before I voiced my concerns, I noticed something at my feet right next to my backpack. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Which is why my father had to start driving a cab. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“And then of course you started a gay, mad fling that brought you inevitably to Hill House?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

His face tightened, and he could already feel the warning sirens starting up inside his body. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If the paper had not been so dear, I would have ripped it up and started again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He watched them mount their horses and drive six old milk cows out of the corral and start over the hill toward Salinas. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he plops down on the couch and starts drawing pageant gowns like mad. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then I would throw away the pile and start a new one. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Tonight is no different from any other night, except that their voices are starting to sound more desperate. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Casey started it with his “nice shorts” comment at the start of practice, and now he had to endure being the object of our serenading. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. He started asking but didn’t finish because the officer shot him in the back.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

At this moment Hyzenthlay, sitting just behind him, started and looked up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came up behind me but instead of getting mad, she picked up the silver-plaited hairbrush and started brushing my hair like she used to do when I was little. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure where to start. I mean, first, you have to promise everything stays between us.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he put his hand over his face and started sobbing. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We made it through Runaway Gamma-Rays and three bottles of wine before Mom started yelling. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Can you put me in touch with them? “I do have the ability to put you in touch with them, but you need to answer a few questions, starting with ‘Why should I?’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mom pulls out of her parking spot and starts drumming her thumbs against the steering wheel as she inches through the traffic to exit. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I put him on hold and started for the door. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The girl grabs the pencil, focusing, drawing the line in fits and starts. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And the Occupy folks raise their fists and start yelling and cheering and clapping. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Gratefully, in great haste, he started a reply: “Dear Don, Hell yes I remember Don Cullivan ...” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to think a lot about infinity, and what it was like there, and how all the postulates and theorems and principles were true across all the universe. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said from the backseat as he started the car. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her words touched something in me, though, started me crying silently. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

August, June, and Rosaleen started doing the dishes, but I slipped off to the honey house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone starts up with “For she’s a jolly good fellow...” which makes absolutely no sense, but it doesn’t matter. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You start out on wooden skates,” said Miguel, “but you can win silver ones. Just like in the book.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They’re rounding the corner for their eighth lap now, and he’s starting to see some flaws in his logic. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I and my friends start to head to class when it hits me that I haven’t seen my dad. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she gave me a wry look, then started braiding up her hair as she watched Chi-Boy work. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Two small kids came running down the hall, but when they saw Ms. Laverne, they stopped and started walking so slowly, I almost laughed. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her eyes never leave me and the wide open part of them is starting to make me uncomfortable. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to start Ess weeping again, but she did wonder what an Elder was supposed to do about a habit like that. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was with them that she and my father started the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, a small storefront church which still stands in Red Hook today. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven't seen Papa in a week, and I'm starting to panic. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then his plan started working a little too well. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He started singing again, this time it wasn’t a Laguna song; it sounded like a Jemez song or maybe one from Zuni. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But neither Rose or me knew how we could even start. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and start climbing the steep steps to the main building. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was a little after six in the morning when the coaches started trickling into the Permian High School held house. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione, caught by surprise, stared at Harry, then laughed and started applauding hard with the rest of the crowd. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The doe looks back at SCORPIUS, and then starts to run. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

If she felt good and started long enough before bedtime, he would hear about Joseph the slave-boy, Joseph in prison, Joseph the dreamer, and Joseph the Big Man in Egypt. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was good all the way up to that moment, but once I knew the date was actually going down, robot face started to appear. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sapo untied the string and started to fly the kite again. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The other one said, “An early start getting killed? This is the Nightingale’s road now. It’s not safe out there, little girl.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It might be the only way to help him; if we just knew where to start.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I move with the crowd, working my way toward my locker, and I think I'm finally starting to relax. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Neeley looked quickly, then, afraid he would start crying, he ran out of the room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I just put the pad and pencil in my pocket and started walking fast as hell up to her school--I was too excited to write the note right in the stationery store. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Before that, I had never realized people thought feet were gross. Anyway, that was right before starting kindergarten. You know what the first day of kindergarten is like for a five-year-old with no arms?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stopped going out with my friends, and they started taking turns staying in with me at night, babysitting me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“We should start you on the antibiotics right away,” he said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was an idea that had started to whisper in her head the moment she’d heard that Mark was gone, but she’d ignored it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He could never do what his father had done, go out on his own after high school, start his own business, will himself into becoming an enormous success. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was enough to start the other two praising Jesus for helping us to save and I fell in with them, praising and stomping. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He started to move away, then stopped and said, ‘‘Rice Krispies, you know? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ito told us to start from the top yet again. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Somebody’s grandmother said her hens always started a laying of double yolks right after Suicide Day. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some kids started cackling like witches, waggling their fingers to be scary. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Happens in the summer when the water starts to warm up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cora started for the stairs but they complained reliably, warning her so often these last few months, that she knew she wouldn’t be able to make it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She started to whimper like a frightened animal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize with a start that they re holding hands. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The only reason Momma lets me off restriction at home is because I started that new job, and she thinks that’s gonna change me somehow. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

But then, once everyone starts calling him by his new name, Big Bird realizes that he doesn’t like it after all. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw my bucktail into the deeper water and started bouncing it along the bottom. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In fifth period I found out the fight was all about Noah Randolph getting commanded to take off his armband and he wouldn’t, so a bunch of other boys started whaling on him. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

With their tails between their legs and trotting side by side, they started back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if giving somebody a job is exploiting them, then I guess I’m an exploiter. Those jobs didn’t exist before I started the business.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Well...” said Chester, "I, uh...that is…” At this point, Chester started to bathe his tail, which is a cat’s way of changing a subject he finds uncomfortable. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m about to start off again when I decide to use the moon and Alice’s dial to find out what time it is. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the front door closed and we start making our way to the truck. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

For O’Dell’s dad, the next day, that meant his garbage truck wouldn’t start. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was the start of our sixth day on the water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard had never heard of Hogwarts and when Harry couldn’t even tell him what part of the country it was in, he started to get annoyed, as though Harry was being stupid on purpose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It started to rain halfway through, but it was only a drizzle so we still went to the carnival in the center. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of Mom starting fights in public. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And with those words that I didn’t even mean to say that little seed of a idea started growing. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

After that raid, everyone all over town started digging trenches. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I’m starting to get scared. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was picking up Anne of Green Gables—I’d just started it—when my mother called me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I started in the small, central living space, opening and closing the pale cabinet doors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He started walking back toward my house, and when the silence was almost too much to bear, Diego said, “You know that painting you like?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The dispatcher asked whether it was possible to start CPR. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Pain started in her foot and seared through her twisted leg. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few housekeeping items before we start our station work,” Webb says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And he could see California and Cornell finally starting to move up on both sides of his boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I started making excuses for him in my head. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as there was a centre of gravity, or a ‘home’ in the sound, the relationship between chords also started to coalesce into hierarchies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A thermostat clicked on and a heater started humming. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

As with all pitched warm-ups, start at the bottom of the range and move up in half-step increments and then back down. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes are so sad now they are starting to water. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved across the room to the other bed, where she lay on her stomach and started reading her sister’s autopsy report. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He turns around and I start talking—it’s the only way. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“But shouldn’t you get out to the school? Haven’t they started practice already?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even as my first- term exams approached, even when we started to do class reviews, the words still made no sense. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And after so many years of despair in East Africa, things started to look up there, too. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t know where to start. He could be halfway to Boston for all we know.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And even as I said it, I knew what I was saying and I switched away and started off in another direction. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only real sleep I had gotten the night before was when I dozed off before the game even started. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Whether I was going to admit it or not, though, something between us had started to change. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I started to panic, and I realized I was holding my breath. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hector drops my mom’s phone and starts crying. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even on the run, Jinx felt a sense of freedom, and for the first time, he felt like he could make a fresh start. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ben, I’m not going to blow up your spot. I will only talk up the good things. I’ll start with how you’re an awesome friend and an even better lover.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Her lips started to turn up to a smirk, and then to a full smile. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Pippin cowered down with his hands pressed to his ears; but Beregond, who had been looking out from the battlement as he spoke of Faramir, remained there, stiffened, staring out with starting eyes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the water instantly soothes my skin, while the oils start to work their scented magic. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say nothing, but just went out back and started digging. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked me over the farm, I started feeling better, i here wasn’t any work here that we didn’t have on our own farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she started eagerly toward him, she forgot her own weakness; her dragging foot caught on a stone and she stumbled clumsily. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dad had some big conference at the school that week and couldn’t get away, and Mom had just started a new job at the travel agency, so Gran volunteered to accompany me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is where the townspeople shopped before they started building malls. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel better once the engine has started. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He even liked it sometimes during the early morning workouts that were held twice a week before classes started inside the school gymnasium. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, Flora’s father started to laugh again. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The fire had been put out by neighbors almost as quickly as it was started. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bell rings, and we leave the pool area and start down a long corridor. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mom had tried to warn me that once I started plucking, there would be no going back. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But it was also the start of a process whereby, in classical music, the old soon far outweighed the new. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In one way it seemed a small thing, starting, after a six months' lapse, where I had so vehemently left off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ralph heard the metallic scrape of a car starting up outside — the waitress, leaving. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to tell him to wait, we’d pick it up later, but Billy was off on a run, heading up the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It means, ‘Call me when you start speaking Spanish’!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

All around, people started crying or wailing or grinning in relief. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Very softly, the Old-Green-Grasshopper started to play the Funeral March on his violin, and by the time he had finished, everyone, including himself, was in a flood of tears. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, when I need to leave for school and Charlie starts whining that she’s hungry, my page looks exactly the same. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you think she’ll ever start thinking about something besides pigs and sheep and geese and spiders?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I bend over again and start to retch. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Alvarez gives Momma a hug, and then she starts in on Isabella. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Since I was so worried about the ticket I couldn’t lie in bed and read, so I just got dressed and went outside and started mowing the lawn with the tractor. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You know each other, so I’m goin’ to start on my flan.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Two people jumped onto the rising ramp and started climbing aboard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, the authorities are now encouraging us to start hobbies— again, the OAS on their backs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The original organization, the Farmers' Alliance, was for whites only, but an affiliated Colored Farm Alliance was soon started and quickly attracted more than one million members. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was not how the first night of the rest of my shiny, new, non-invisible life was supposed to start. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“All runners to the start!” someone announces over a portable PA. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

All he’d seen since they started flying over die forest was lakes and now they were gone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption nodded reluctantly, and she took his arm as they started walking down the street again. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Usually something happens: the criminal's resolve starts breaking down, and he begs and pleads with the guards or tries to cut a deal or an extension, or sometimes even tries to break out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Then start telling him details about your life together in China. Act like a fortuneteller. He’ll be so impressed.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the key and it started right up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You better start taking us seriously,” said Wood. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When the tears start to sting my eyes, I don’t turn away, embarrassed that my dad sees. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes. We’re a team. But I’m the coach and four of the starting players.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was an area where the woods had started to reclaim the land. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once the implications of what I was seeing on Mayor Undersee’s television hit me, I made for the door and started down the hall. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We moved to a new house to give me a fresh start. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t do that,” wailed the boy, tears starting to roll down his face. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“America,” historian Daniel Okrent has stated, “had been awash in drink almost from the start—wading hip-deep in it, swimming in it, at various times in its history nearly drowning in it.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But in order for it to make any sense, I have to start at the beginning. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But unlike many others, he had been intrigued by DNA from the start. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He felt like he was crouched at the starting line, waiting for someone to yell ‘Go!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

People possessed by demons would start running up and down the aisles like madmen, screaming in tongues. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Manet started small, teaching me simple formulae of the sort required for twice-tough glass and heat funnels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Me and Joey started smiling right away, and Byron tried to look cool and bored. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled me to my feet and started by slipping the sweater over my head and edging down my jeans. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first big storm of the winter must have started right after I went to bed. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

‘My friend here started that process last summer. He made the Olympians promise to pay you guys more attention.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Least till the thought of even passing by one isn't enough to make me choke up and start bawling about Mama. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t be surprised if you start flinging flaming squirrels on level seven.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The song starts with shots of our neighborhood, then it moves from our quiet street, to Southridge Mall, the Islamic Center, and outside my school. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It took us twice as long to get a fire started, and it took me longer to carry water up and down the stairs, but I didn’t care. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled bigger than ever and took her hand and started towing her away. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Ever since Ms. Gruwell announced that the Freedom Writers with the top thirty-five grade point averages would win computers when we graduated, I started getting As and Bs on my report card. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell me something, boys,” she’d start, “why are you two always going after each other? Every time I turn around. Can somebody please explain this to me?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I arrived, like, an hour before they said the operation would start, but there were already lines up and down the beach and boardwalk, past the movie theater, running down all the side streets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I started with disgust, then thought, The sun will shine in those backyards some day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew exactly where to start dropping the word. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people were starting to file into the plane now. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She put her nose to the fire, as her mother would have said, and read from start to finish without looking up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He started to laugh, then stopped and became fluent instead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Oliver started humming the Star Wars theme song. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tonight, after he sang the song without Pond’s help, they would start on the second song. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had started humming sadly to herself, but she stopped, her rag poised midway between the bucket and the floor, as if suddenly aware of my presence behind her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I told Mrs. Viboon that you would learn a lesson. I think I know the perfect lesson to start with.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She got that gleam in her eye and started out full blast, and Toby settled back, feeling sure she was good for the rest of the time until recess. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started pointing, gesturing about the crowd, picking out people. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rushed out of the elevator and started shaking Charlie’s hand so furiously it nearly came off. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Peewee had been drinking a Coke; he started with a fit of laughter, and snorted the Coke out through his nose and all down the front of his T-shirt. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d have to get started if she was going to read them all. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

From all that standing it started to throb. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scars were disappearing, the skin was becoming smooth; the mangled nose became whole and started to shrink. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I started calling her Jay after that—there was no way she was my mom anymore. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the moment I started the engine, they all came running back. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And you!” said Mrs. Weasley, but it was with a slightly softened expression that she started cutting Harry bread and buttering it for him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Saying the words made the shaking start all over again. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally she would get animated and start spilling any random facts that she knows about Malala. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Remember the conference thing I wanted you to come to? She started hitting on me right away She’s been after me since. She won’t leave me alone. She knows I have a girlfriend.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And now it was up to him to get out of it by himself and make a new start again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the police came and arrested the kids, and the kids started telling the camera or us they could smoke drugs if they wanted to. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"I wanted to prove that I should've been the favorite from the start." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He went online, cranked up a search engine, started browsing. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he's going to start looking for a job and another place to live. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I nodded, thinking that I had started missing him before we’d ever said goodbye. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Let me explain—” the man in black began, starting to edge forward. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sparrow might make things grow, but she had to have something to start with. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His mother says good night, and we tiptoe back down to the basement, where Layla is just starting to toss about. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As the years went by, we started to venerate that dog proper, like the saint she is. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I can feel my thoughts spiraling away, can feel myself start to tremble. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In 2011, I started making a deliberate effort to invest and reinvest in my friendships, bringing together old friends and new. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, WHAM!, the engine started, kicking like a mule and plastering us up against our shoulder straps. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Research into HPV eventually uncovered how Henrietta’s cancer started: HPV inserted its DNA into the long arm of her eleventh chromosome and essentially turned off her p 5 3 tumor suppressor gene. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But then the whistles blew again and people started screaming from the sidelines. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Still, we shall soon be with our son and you will be able to rest. Come, we may as well start now—the sooner the better.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom had a closet too, so I started with that. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Slowly, she turned to face me, taking in my appearance a little at a time, starting with my feet and then gradually working her way up to my face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The sun slid slowly down the sky, hung still for a moment, then started up again. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid the rat down and started to dress. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flame came back as Shorty, with a thick towel, started drying my head, rubbing hard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting there on my rug in my bedroom, I started designing blueprints for a brand-new city, with brand-new buildings and totally new stories. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“If you get too large, you don’t have enough work in common. You don’t have enough things in common, and then you start to become strangers and that close-knit fellowship starts to get lost.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the effort stirs the black, wet road to a mire, and when he starts up the car again, it won’t move. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about stepping to her, but then I started wondering if she might get mad. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I started in, past the stairs I had seen so often in my nightmares. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She started to giggle and wag her head. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I took the reins and maneuvered the chariot to the starting line. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cringing, I started to spit it out, but La Llorona coaxed me until I swallowed the rest of it down. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Amber uses a hot iron to start straightening it, then changes her mind and grabs a steam-roller for curls. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Mason got the start of you all this morning; he was gone before sunrise: I rose at four to see him off.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Masjid comes back chewing betel leaves, and we start driving again. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I said practically. Everyone—especially my parents—thought I was going to be great, and now I might not make the middle school team. My basketball career is over before it started.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shame filled him anew; he felt more like a child at that moment than he had since this whole mess started. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Soon it started raining; then came a hailstorm. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She gawked at Tyson and started to say, “Who—?” Tyson hit her in the head so hard, she spun in a circle and landed on her rump. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The messages started coming in a trickle Friday afternoon, then a torrent by Monday. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take starting a private high school for the Negroes, for example. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after a couple more false klaxons, the bus started, and Robert Cohn waved good-by to us, and all the Basques waved good-by to him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Almost without knowing what he was doing, as though drawn by some powerful magnet, James Henry Trotter started walking slowly toward the giant peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mom rolled her eyes when she saw the shirts and called me an idiot, and once our customers started sporting their new garb at school, some of the teachers got to grumbling. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lawes had started his career as a guard at Clinton prison and then returned to his hometown of Elmira, where he rose to the post of chief guard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would give them a head start in solving future messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We joined in the group and got two warm beers out of somebody's duffel bag and the girls started talking nonstop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Angel starts off our presentation, and it doesn’t seem like she’s nervous at all. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

When I was around seven, I stopped asking about it because I kept asking like kids always do and my Aunt Helen started crying very hard. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I started to wonder if he even liked me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She started thinking about how she might have reacted if my problems were on the inside rather than the outside. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He started telling the other kids things like how, as soon as I was old enough, me and him were going to get married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hound ran up to the graveyard and started sniffing and bawling. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I started to panic, exactly. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He said he was going to start at once," said Aravis. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was so happy, I started jumping, too. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As we drove past the packing plant and into downtown Tangerine, Henry D. started to tell me about last year’s game with Lake Windsor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hayes first heard Marian sing, he urged her to start professional studies, but her family had no money for high school, let alone voice lessons. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Always business with you, Little Wood. I love that,” Grandpop said, starting his next set of crunches. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Viola sat at her table, taking a short rest while SanJuanna pumped water in preparation to start on the mountain of dishes on the counter. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I start walking in the opposite direction, feeling lighter than I have since before Gram died. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The day after I arrived, starting at dawn and ending well into the evening, I followed Farmer on his rounds, for the first of many times. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Gerald started to ask what Mama’s surprise was, but he didn’t really want to know. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flashed on my kids and the idea that we would hit the chairs and start spinning around the highway, and I braced for impact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Tee, since when you start talking ’bout ancestors?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The people who got off the train with us all started walking in the same direction, so we followed them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If anything goes slightly amiss, one of the monitors starts bleeping. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our first day of a new move always started at City Hall. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When she mentioned that I had started wetting the bed, I went to where the others were watching TV and started to mimic what was on the screen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They started saying stuff about how proud they were of me and what a nice kid I was and junk like that, but it sounded like they’d been practicing what to say. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It starts to get cold once the sun is down and the trade wind kicks up from the Arctic over the ocean and comes right into the condo. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next day, I start at camp school. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think they don’t want to worry me, and they probably don’t want to get Hana started. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

To Eleanor's horror—to her ongoing horror—Park came over and started filling the sink with water. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Three of them started forward, chainmail clinking softly with each step. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was a year ahead of me, and this past year, my senior year, he’d started at the university in town. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the road suddenly started winding as it entered the river gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two jets swept by and started hitting a target less than five miles away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scowled at them and started putting myself back together. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I follow her, take the knotted pile of lights on the ground, and start untangling them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They lined up and started marching toward us from the other side of the field. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to remember Papa Legba’s words now, but it all starts to feel and sound crazy. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Raven said the game wasn’t supposed to start for a few weeks.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Captain Marsh made it clear from the start that he had doubts about hiring a boy so young. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

We got to the tree and tears start welling up in my eyes. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I’ve known Summer since we were in third grade, and I never really paid any attention to her, but this year Henry started liking Savanna and they were like, “going out.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Since when did you start reading Shakespeare?” she asks, after poking through the books on my desk. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Xan pulled herself to her feet and started pacing the room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene’s eyes started bugging out of his head. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I waited, and when he started talking, his voice was real low. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

After we ate, we started to drift into a sedate sleepiness again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then one man didn’t jump back in on time, and as the train started, he tried to catch it, his fingers clutching at the window. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sooner I was through with this Hambro, the sooner I could get started with my work. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed a creek that fed into the Tug River and started up a barely paved one-lane road called Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m ready to start up my own hustle. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember now, the train started from Stamboul just as we were talking about it.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re getting awfully heavy, Melody. I’m going to have to start lifting weights!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“There were so many of them, just lined up in front of the entrance, and I think only a few people slipped past them before they started firing.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As she started downstairs, she considered stopping by for Melanie, but she decided against it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan, as Nelson explained it, is they start a fire in a huge circle around the big hill behind the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too worried that if I started talking, I might say something I couldn’t take back. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, Gum Baby didn’t jump up and start shouting nonsense. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Anytime the cops asked me questions I started speaking in broken Afrikaans with a thick colored accent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We started to walk away when I realized we’d forgotten to close the trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself starting to spaz, even though I was trying not to. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

You have to have the factory right there, because sugar starts losing sucrose within hours of being picked. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When class started, Señor Ascencio explained that we each would have to create a family tree and write a short essay to go with it for our first big assignment due on Monday. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone was back on planet Earth, the Holy Spirit had left the building, and casual conversations started up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The question of finding Rosy a job elsewhere had been brought to his boss, Randall, but the best to be hoped for would be a new position starting a year hence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Four of the Freys started forward until Lord Wyman halted them with an upraised hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That is one reason why I never wanted to turn back when we started to. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how long it will take for someone to start searching for me,” Virgil said. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We could just as easily end up right back where we started.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me and started nodding again, with this very serious look on his face. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Robertson of U. S. Robot & Mechanical Men Corporation, son of the founder, pointed his lean nose at his general manager and his Adam’s apple jumped as he said, “You start now. Let’s get this straight.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Looking back over the months that led to this day, it seems the collapse of things started in October, with the vote in church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To the Maa—?” I started to ask, but three voices shushed me, and someone threw sap at my head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the tip,” I said, and once I started running I could not slow down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With a sigh, I click my pen and start taking notes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Pollard started clapping loudly, and the crowd looked up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He may have wanted to leave the past behind him, but I was only getting started. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He starts campaigning for the three of them to visit. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His head was really starting to ache right behind his eyes, and it hit him how exhausted he was. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” Bram starts to say, but Simon kisses him on the cheek before he can get the word out. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The way I looked at it, it was my time to close the door on this chapter of my life, and start a new page. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But even when I was my happiest, I had a worry that started right above my brow, where you know a thing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there was something else on the leather cord: a red coral pendant Percy had given her when they had started dating. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She gathered up the bundles of twigs and started walking southwest. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the sweetness started in their Flushing apartment, after their daughter's written words had exposed her contempt and erased the sharpness from her tongue. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I start my descent, crutches, then foot, crutches, then foot, crutches, then foot. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

My back started bothering me in eighth grade but really began to hurt earlier that summer. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We deplaned, followed Lieutenant Wilson across the field into an area in front of some Quonset huts, and started forming ranks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sensed frustration from her, like she had a million questions and no idea where to start. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mami says, already annoyed with me and the day hasn’t even started. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

This didn’t mean you were home free, it simply meant bigger guys would think twice before starting something with you. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The rain started again just after noon, and I sat under a dense pine nursing my last tin of meal replacement, the last-resort tin with the expiry dated for the previous year. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“You know they are going to put you on probation if you don’t start doing better, man.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The man seized my hand and started swinging it up and down. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I start it at a door I’ve never seen before and end it at the foot of my bed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pool of blood underneath the woman is starting to make me feel sick. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

You started a marble off at the top, and it rolled round and round, down the slipway on the outside, until it got to the bottom, and then dropped into a chute. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Plank position. Good. Hold it a second, then start.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She gets real quiet for a second and then starts scratching the corner of her left eye. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This bright canary-yellow bus lets out one long, steady honk before starting off. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He hopped into the cab and started the engine. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Chess started to object—did he want to warn his brother and sister that maybe he should read the file first; maybe he should protect them from whatever it was going to say? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Teddy and I got along like a house on fire, one of those friends where you start hanging out and from that day forward you’re never apart. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At the start, he enjoyed an overwhelming majority and regarded his position as impregnable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it had started. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fuller ran up and started yelling at them, but they pushed past him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Cal started for the front door Lee followed and walked out with him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she’d leave my room then, but she started picking some clothes off my floor and putting them in my hamper. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

From below, from the driveway, comes the sound of the car being started. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leech's tiny teeth bite into the vein, and its secretions start to flow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There are Facebook pages for dozens of neighborhoods where people have started checking themselves in as safely evacuated and with access to water—because those two things don’t necessarily go together. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He turned the plastic gun on me and started clicking, as if I were just another image from the screen. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting her to start talking, to give me advice like she always did. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t even know what came over me—but I started laughing and laughing and I couldn’t stop. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I start to ask Chris if he wants to dance, but he lets my hand go and heads toward some of his boys. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Somewhere along the way, I started to go overboard. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I started the truck and backed down the driveway. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They filed petitions, and the government started looking for ways to shut my dad down. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had dreamt of my family since I started running away from the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then she starts talking real soft and sad. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He looked so huge and wild, and Cecilia with her bare shoulders and thin arms so frail that Briony had no idea what she could achieve as she started to go toward them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was so surprised and grateful I started to blub again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“It was your plan from the start,” Bigger said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Six! Five! Four!” the little kid yells, and then he starts spinning in circles, just for fun. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She got down on her hands and knees and started chipping away at the earth with the tiny shovel. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I start, back and forth, carrying our water and food atop a tall chest. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There are books I will never finish reading, games I will never finish playing, movies that I’ve started and will never see the end of. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I hear the clumping of shoes, the thumping of backpacks on the floor, the screeching of chairs as the room starts to fill behind me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Whose turn is it to recite? Let’s start with you, Sophia.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He started staying with us when he dropped out of college. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I could make a new start and just be a person like everyone else. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people applauded, and everybody except me started talking all excited about what had happened so far and what would be next. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The afternoon Madame’s car was spotted coming across the fields, it was windy and sunny, with a few storm clouds starting to gather. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was that time of day when the birds were getting ready to be quiet and the toady-frogs were starting to get louder with that chirpity sound they make most the night. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But even as I try to convince myself, I start to wonder if Michael is one of the boys who was invited or if she’s mad at him, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton taps an F and nods for him to start there. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t expect her to, but she gazes out the window, then starts talking. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ll check out the Center for Disease Control first. You guys should start with the others, so we can share notes.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Just then, the flashlight battery started to go. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

So many times in the past weeks he had started to tell her about Ifemelu but had stopped. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She turns down an aisle, starts slowing down, and then stops when we get to the middle. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She started a small business selling clothes and brought us money when she could. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Swirling below us was a dark, boiling sea, so horrifying that even my screams started screaming. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

With a start she came out of her trance, stood up, and shook her feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mark started searching; the walls were cool to the touch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I start to close the suitcase, but I open it again and push my hand inside its top pouch. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I told him my name and started to explain why I was calling, but before I could say much, he let out a deep sigh. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He sings and plays bass and harmonica for the Manichaean Blues Band, a group he started back in San Antonio, where he’s from. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it indeed marked the start of a true and deep financial panic, the timing was abysmal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A white van was starting up its engine. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to protest but stopped, surprised, when Ayanna beat me to it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She starts walking out, swinging through the door and back across the cafeteria. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He waited until Jaja and I sat down opposite him, and started the grace. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She started missing days at work, and then she stopped going at all. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I must have looked upset, because he started to back off. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins’ friends stare at me and start asking too many questions. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He felt his heartbeat increase as the fear started. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“William’s father gave him that land three years ago, on his sixteenth birthday, and William said that he would never start to build his house until his mind was made up.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My heart started pounding like crazy because I knew if I found what I thought I would, I’d really blow my lid. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They had already started gathering, and half a grain sack of mistletoe was still hanging against the side of the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It might be too soon. I’ll give you some more when it starts to hurt.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But then my old self started to sneak up over me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I started writing my book there was only one mystery I had to solve. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dill started to say that he was okay. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His excitement was contagious, but before I had a chance to start the microwave, my phone rang. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to protest, but he started to play Mozart, soft and sweet, and I turned away, my eyes stinging. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I start tearing up from laughing so hard, and Nora covers her mouth. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t start dating till a year ago. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The year just started, and I, too, agree that this year is o-vah,” Bits replied. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a few tries, he finally gets the engine started and we head down the driveway, the chassis squeaking and groaning. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was actually going to start blowing people away. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, they evacuated the whole building, called the bomb squad, the police, the lot. The bomb squad arrives and opens the box when it starts ringing.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And due to some harmonic resonance, I started crying again too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And then, Malcolm starts laughing so hard and for so long, she has to close her eyes and wait it out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Everything’s going to work out,” she says quickly, quietly, and starts the engine. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She pointed to where the school buses had started driving out of the parking lot. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ma reaches up to plump her snowy halo of hair, which is starting to droop a bit. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s remarkable how little time passes before she starts speaking again. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Julia plops down on my beanbag chair and starts playing with the rough seam that always scratches you whenever you move. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

As I started to brainstorm how to get the most scholarship money for college, I again paged through my catalogs and I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It spun to life, humming a joyous tune as I took Abuelitas hand back in mine and started to pray out loud. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Life in Athens was off to a promising start. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“No, you can’t have this! It’s evidence. Your rocket started a forest fire. It burned the top off Davy Mountain and almost got to the houses on Highway 52.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I started grunting like I was constipated or something, just to draw attention. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The motor started and Kapugen looked at her until the boat moved, then he turned his back and walked quickly away. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what happened just before the pain started. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sir Charles and the other white man brung their heads together and started talking. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Not in the way that Princess put all her dresses and skirts into trash bags and started dressing like the son I never had. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, when Mother made a fresh batch of iced tea for dinner, I almost started crying. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not that person anymore. I’m old, not the little kid I was when I started it,” I say. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He started down the mountain and his legs gave beneath him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He hits me so hard a knot starts to swell on my arm. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad’s face turned white and I started to feel sick when I saw that the gray hair around his temples was slick with sweat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pointing with his pistol, the cap’n gestured for the man to start walking. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Very slowly I start to move my foot. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get me started with the movies. Gods of Olympus, they never get anything right. Have you seen one movie about me where I look like me?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning he would wake up groaning like the demon in a kabuki drama; he would vomit and then start sipping again. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was, indeed, the way things were at the start of the Renaissance. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Harry scrambled around, trying to pick it all up before the dwarf started singing, causing something of a holdup in the corridor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was as though I was starting a new life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was like starting a bunch of books and never finishing any of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The cook must have started taking his trousers right off because now they were shouting, "It's not in there! There's no mice in there, you silly twerp!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

We sat down with a box between us and started unpacking. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Cape Cod was an adequate place for Swift to start. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Charles tried to help, but he was starting his senior year of high school and had his own schoolwork. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve started ignoring him like he’s ignoring me in school now. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The priest stopped right in the middle of the prayer and extended his right arm in the direction of my mother, who then started speaking in tongues. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she has sat down and eaten lunch with me every single day since I started working here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In June, Nixon made a bold move, announcing that he would begin withdrawing American troops from Vietnam, starting with twenty-five thousand men. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And it’s possible — that along the way I started believing in it myself. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I reached for Lovey’s hand as we watched the cars start, smoke blowing from the exhaust pipes, kicking brown and orange and yellow leaves up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And I let go of the bed and started walking toward that sliver of light, not sure what I’d say to you when I opened the door. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The prisoner in the cell nearest to them started to shout. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Decipher a bunch of notes scribbled on the board probably five minutes before class started, then copy them down in your notebook. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Coach shouted from his window as me and Curron started running faster. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, but don’t start worrying about what you called him. He’s got a lawyer’s hide. He’s been called worse in his day.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Feeling confident, I placed the note pad inside the desk and waited for the class to start. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several passengers exhaled in relief, but my muscles wouldn’t relax, and I started to shiver. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Naked Lunch by Burroughs and Look Homeward, Angel by Wolfe were a good start. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When I think about before I started school, what I remember best is making kites. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I started walking down the last hillside it was something else. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we started working, I got some sense of what life was like for other prisoners on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father and my mother were also Norwegian, but because my father had a business in England, I had been born there and had lived there and had started going to an English school. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He had started off simply, announcing a change of basic strategy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By then I had made some friends and when I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys of my own age along the way. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The helicopter starts to lift again, and it takes my brain a second to realize that something is different. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Nobody is donating much these days. These people keep coming here and asking me for food, and then they start to ask for jobs. You know, they came back from the North with nothing. Nothing.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I’m going to hope you start writing back now that I’m writing to you at your new school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"This will do in a pinch, until we get started." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think there are some pretty compelling reasons for wiping the earth clean and starting over?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” Em started, “I’m—” and then she burst into tears. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now, I know me some rap, and I start to thinking I should show Mr. Ward what rap is really all about. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, if Dionysus had gotten off his butt and actually started helping the gods recruit against the Titan threat, things must be looking pretty bad. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath to start running again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It’d been raining outside, one of those tropical storms that start as suddenly as they stop. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I finished up the teeth and a quick sketch of the eye before the drops started coming quickly. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I started toward the tree, but I stopped short as soon as I came around the corner of the barn, and flattened myself to the wall. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When the turtles push their way out of the sand and start waddling toward the water's edge, they look like a bunch of wind-up toys escaped from Toys "R" Us. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I start picking up all her stupid silky things and piling them on the chair. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I started to walk out of her office on the little Walk of Doom she had arranged for me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how it happened so fast, but one second I’m looking at the cap’n and starting to feel something for him and the next I’m staring down the barrel of his pistol. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“You can’t stand what?” asked Harry, now starting to feel definitely alarmed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Our table was tall with shirts when the first concertgoers started arriving around ten. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Each of us wanted to be with Zuraiq, but Basel and Muhammad would soon start their school year. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I started to make some reply, but decided against it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you start with when you first saw her?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then he goes on to say what a punk Stephen is and that kids are starting to speak out in bigger numbers. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The rain started right after lunch, and I was hoping I’d get to go on home without seeing Lymon and his crew after school. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Rolling over onto her stomach, she started backing down the slope feet first, looking ridiculous in her robe and slippers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As a result, I’d gradually started to put on some extra pounds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I slip on a fleece and start the short trek up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I somehow commanded a blood vessel to pop open and start leaking into my stomach. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it came about that various rumors started in the town concerning the mute. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she started crying, and Mr. Levy got depressed and thanked her and lning up. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to be honest, those lunch hours had started to feel less like hiding out and more like waiting—for Faith to show up and claim a seat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I swayed and dipped, and in an instant, the walls around me started coming down. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You can’t see or hear a thing. We had better start back for camp.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to climb onto the bed, but stop when the room sways a little. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“D’you really think so? Oh, come on, Julian, old chap. I must share the blame. It was my barrack-room feeding habits that started the whole thing. You mustn’t blame yourself, old friend.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Once he started talking he broke right through the embarrassment and there was suddenly no longer a barrier there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we started down the hallway to his classroom, he stopped, and I waited while he peeled the sticker off his shirt, folded it, and stuck it in his pocket. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I walk to my car as Bo’s gaze follows me; the feeling of it starts as a ball of heat in my chest and spreads like a sunrise. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She picks up her armband, which was twisted up like a snake on her bed, and starts pulling it through her fingers. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“You know the worst part of this? I bet tolerance education isn’t over anymore. It’s going to be like Groundhog Day, where every morning it starts over again.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“But the South started it, didn’t they, Bill?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dusk had faded to darkness by then, but when his servants came to light his candles and start a fire in the hearth, Tyrion had roared at them and sent them running. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once I started walking again, I got to where I took my coveralls off and stashed them behind some rocks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Go home and start in on the e-mail?—and that got me started thinking about e-mail, and all of a sudden I was really glad to have Dr. Minerva to go to. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was taller and had just started growing breasts—more than what Jennifer had. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t begin to guess what rumors would start if someone saw me running across the rooftops late at night, bloody and naked to the waist. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the point at which schools stopped teaching traditional rhetoric was around the point at which they started teaching women. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The second clock tells a different time, the time at the starting point. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the Veterans Memorial an hour after the dance started. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His th's slurred together, and his w’s started sounding like v’s. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I said something really smart like, ‘This forest is under my protection. You won’t start any battles here!’ The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She flicks it on–so she does know how they work–and starts walking, first toward me, then past me, as if we’re already on our way. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Oh, don't start that again. Do shove it along, Michael," Brett said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had started in ninth grade, the first year at the school, and was now a junior like me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They started talking—I have no idea what about. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And just to complicate matters perfecdy, I was starting to feel responsible for their safety and happiness and got panicked at the idea of them being captured or corrupted by the outside world. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He frequently paced the length of the gym, wrote so often in his notebook that he had to get a new one, and would occasionally start his sentences in the middle of a thought. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Like the alcoholic, the junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes and accepts his true condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank and Bill started to crank down the windows so they could put out their hands when he turned the corners, but Anne and Ernestine shook their heads. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then as facial scars were healing, she started throwing up and getting rashes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the book and started kicking Mars Bar in his beloved sneakers. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t leave time for anyone to look at me or say anything, she says it right as we’re all coming in, and in Ms. Smith’s class, you come in and start the Do Now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But none of us would care about missing that,” Bobby says as they get started with rehearsing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The students started to shuffle back to their classrooms. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Then the driver came out swinging two flat leather mail-pouches and climbed up, and everybody waving we started off. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mama starts the car, looks at me in the rearview mirror. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They’re just starting up and the stock is going for fifty cents a share.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We start to rebuild right away, with everyone working hard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mama started with a prayer for peace and for the rulers of our country. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when the siren blurped and the lights started flashing. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The Bronchettes, no longer duty-bound to cheer and serve up those reedy, screechy screams, started dancing away with abandon, their faces fresh and unvarnished by lipstick or rouge powder. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who’d been holding their breath let it out all at once and started talking. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It started with this one right here, sir,” Diego said, flipping through the playbook. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She would say stupid things, and all the time the team started laughing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I started reading my mom’s copy from the place I left off with Bill’s copy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the choking in my throat that always starts right before the tears. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The phones at the police department in Trenton, New Jersey, started ringing when the Martians began their annihilation. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It would start to ease as they saw that I didn’t try to mix, but stuck close to someone on our team, or kept to myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erin—who sits next to me in the cafeteria when it’s not basketball season—just started eating the carrots off my plate enthusiastically and thanking people until they got confused. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, but I started it just so that I could say we shouldn't' really dramatically.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Listen—” I start to say, but Rabiya puts her plate down on the bench and starts to blow her nose harder and wipe her eyes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Sounds like the morning is starting off on the right foot." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Doña Ana’s barn still stood, and the animals inside whimpered softly, as if their normal voices would make the wind start up again. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Aunty, I’m not staying home, and if I did Atticus would be the saddest man in the world . . . but don’t worry, Atticus understands perfectly, and I’m sure once you get started you’ll make Maycomb understand.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As they started to take Jeffrey’s clothes off, he woke up. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no doubt that a statement starting with there begins on a weak note. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything is picked over, and I start to lose my patience. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Work on them weeds a whole hour, and when five o’clock comes, I start back toward the shed. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time, C.P. had started a family of his own. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is often no bottom at which to start, and when there is there’s almost no room at the top. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was starting seventh grade tomorrow in a new school, in a new town, and, to make matters worse, a week later than everyone else because of the bat mitzvah. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

There was not quite a year until the primary contests got started, beginning in Iowa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Look at the way he behaves as if anything you touch starts smelling like perfume. He really likes you,” Aunty Uju said, and then, face wrinkling, she added, “And even with your hair like that.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I started to clean everything up, and that was when I noticed something else weird. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Madame. I think you heard the man pass through—but unconsciously; later you had a nightmare of a man being in your compartment and woke up with a start and rang for the conductor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, in her best broken Elven, she said to her guest, “Take part! I demanding you plant you face in meat and starts to bite!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“And I had to start with myself,” she says. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Because horses who gain commanding early leads in match races generally win them, observers thought the bullet-breaking War Admiral held a considerable advantage over the historically slower-breaking Seabiscuit, even with a conventional start. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily waited a beat, expecting a punch line or her brother to start laughing and take his words back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He crossed the street and started down a block he hardly ever walked on, a block of low apartment buildings, a store-front church, a delicatessen, a pawn shop, and on the corner, a bar. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

From little green marbles, those tomatoes started growing. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can start by telling me your name,” the officer said, tapping his fountain pen against the desk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After this she started to beat the quilts on each side with her broom. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the time when she should have started, Mary did not understand that free education was available for people like them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to get the machine started, but no luck. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Bethel Park High Football Team, of which Mr. Wright was a starting running back. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That must have got Mami thinking about Papi because she started talking about the old days and how Papi and my uncles became involved in the underground movement against the dictator. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab was starting to operate on an industrial scale, with graduate students working in shifts to keep the cyclotron running round the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We started walking toward the labor camp, following the same route we had taken that morning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband wanted to start a church but we had no money, so he said, ‘Let’s start it right here in our living room.’ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around one last time to be sure no one was Watching, the girls grabbed Marshall out of his tailspin and started down the sidewalk in the direction that they had come. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"People take a boy like that. They don't know what he's worth. They don't know what he means. Any foreigner can flatter him. They start this Grand Hotel business, and in one year they're through." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I need you to say it,” she says, and her voice sounds tiny and childlike and so unlike Erin that I really start to worry. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julia and Isabella start talking to each other, and I watch them as if I don’t know who they are. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Now that he was trying to involve me, I started to see a whole other side of the movement. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What are the chances it’ll start when we need it to?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to get food, and started walking south, where he believed Danville lay, hoping to hitch as soon as a car came by. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started backing out, dragging the body of my little dog. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to sweep, but it wasn’t necessary. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Craig, who was suddenly interested in girls, had started taking his phone calls behind closed doors in the bathroom, the phone’s curlicue cord stretched taut across the hallway from its wall-mounted base in the kitchen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We sat silently for a long time and then I started saying silly things, because I didn't know what else to do. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I was back in the kitchen I started opening cupboards looking for the drinking glasses. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m just starting to wonder if she’s, you know, all there when she looks down at me again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You need to know. I don’t want us to start with secrets. And I’d rather you hear it from me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then their twelve-year-old, Dewey’s namesake, had gone into the yard to burn rubbish and started a blaze that had threatened the neighborhood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when we first started hearing the phrases, “Black is beautiful” and “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud!” Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took Lieutenant Carroll’s personal stuff from Sergeant Simpson and started looking through it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmine starts clapping, and then everyone joins in. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you start by telling us a little about your past?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He starts spinning the hat on his finger. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It would be a new start, he said. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

A new battle cry starts up: The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, his mom and her mom had started talking on the street. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then she turned back to Sohrab and started up in Farsi again. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a handkerchief from her pocket and started wiping Rosie’s face. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Three days before the play, Tiny and I are talking again as we wait for precalc to start, but there's nothing inside our words. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

We should start peer review and vetting so they can be officially accepted. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latch rattled, and then the padlock started banging against the latch. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They woke with a start, torn from their dreams. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before I start forgetting some of this stuff.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My father was so convinced I would die that he started thinking about my funeral. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He and the other guy started to fight for the gun. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Who tries to start a business without having a phone?” my mom blurts out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was a relief when the farce of the meal was over, and I heard Maxim go out on to the drive and start up the car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: When did you first start seeing more and more young people coming into the courts? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it was all okay they were to start production in plastics factories all over the country. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry had received no mail since the start of term; his only regular correspondent was now dead and although he had hoped that Lupin might write occasionally, he had so far been disappointed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You must have started early at the mess.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The rocky ground under my feet started sliding away from the shore. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprised, but not angry, which is a good start. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his reading glasses on again, leafed through a book, and started to read. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“If I start lower and come higher, I’ll pop it up every time.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Mong, man,” I said as soon as the morning started chasing off night and the sky changed to lighter. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I started to respond, but Habiba jumped in to answer for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Aaron was saying, and he started to go into anatomical details, things about her that I didn’t need to hear; I tuned him out; I knew he was talking to himself. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gold’s mother leaped up and started stuffing her son’s clothes into a card- board suitcase. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wiped my eyes and braced myself for her to start yelling at me, but before she could get a word out, Grandma started talking. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

At its head sauntered proud, battle-hardened veterans in turbans, long tunics, and sandals, who had started the struggle many years before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is your chance to break away. To start over. And you have to take it.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Their calls first start all together and slow and then pick up speed and volume until they finally dissipate to separate voices and rounds of hand clapping and cheers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paired up with English, and we started on the leg machines while the big guys hit the bench. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I hand her the pad of paper and she starts reading it, then hands it back and says, “Here, you read it to me.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boys watched him climb in and start down the hill. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he wanted to start the seventh and eighth graders now so that he could choose a varsity team and have them run over the summer and be ready to begin real competition by September. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I think the fact that her mom has to constantly defend all those thugs is starting to screw with her head. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When I read an interview with her in Vogue that mentioned she got her start at the A.C.T. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Luke got sent home before the real whipping started. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“New lab partners today,” Mr. Levy announces, and starts calling out names. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The city’s murder rate was starting to tick upward—a sign of even more trouble to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After the Easter Bunny incident, my parents started to worry. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Let’s catch it. Come on, Milk,” and Guitar started to run toward the fence. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is that, anyway? What changes? Does everyone go psycho like Ben and start trying to kill people?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I thought he was going to start frothing at the mouth or shooting spines, but he just bowed awkwardly and left the room. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Easter vacation was starting on Friday, and it distracted things a little bit. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And then we are going to write! This will be our sixth-grade start to making the world a better place,” Mr. Kazilly finishes. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Meanwhile, Diondra, you can start working on portraits of these sisters so we can use them for our report covers when we’re done.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby won a series of contests against weaker players, but as he progressed up the tournament ladder, he confronted stiffer opposition and started to lose. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You started hanging around my classes waiting for me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning, but instead I said, “I.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When I might be in trouble, I usually try to speak first, before the Vents start in on me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started forgetting things he had done just a few hours earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then all of a sudden Ms. Rubin started pointing to kids around the class. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It hit me that he wasn’t going to get up only after he was lowered into the hole, just in the shroud, and the diggers started covering him with the earth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I start to object but he puts a finger to my lips. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I realized that it was not just the continuation of the locally devastating, hopelessly stalemated war that was unjustified—it had been wrong from the start.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A cold front started in this morning, so she can’t go out to the swimming pool, and they say the weather’s going to get worse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘I knew we should have to fight. Well, they started the killing.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nathan started to hum the melody for the Change song and then sang a few words, but the ice did not respond at all when Nathan instructed the water to melt. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

People were starting to push, to stand as close to one another as they could, backpacks bumping, everyone’s feet taking little steps closer to the doors. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile at meets, my hard work in the gym was starting to pay off. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I didn't like the idea of starting to work for a man who was in such a nasty mood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am like my mama in that I like to be told stories. But before you start telling it, can Winn-Dixie come in and listen, too? He gets lonely without me.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, this might be a good place to start. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was when I looked up at a lifeboat on the bridge castle that I started to worry. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I started to get nervous that even though I wasn’t lying, she thought I was. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A rumor started, and spread, to the effect that there was an underground railroad too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the warmth got other ideas and started spreading into places a girl like Desdemona didn’t allow it to go, and she broke off the stare and turned away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Take it from the top? Are we rehearsing for a play? Should I get Mike in here to start building props?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This came at a time when William’s work travel was starting to step up, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If a sentence starts with there, its real subject follows the verb, as in: There was a young man from Darjeeling. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marc’s old rooster cried his fifth cry of the night, and the village started to wake. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Normally at this point she called the younger players in from their laps and started them on their drills. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There is something appealing to her about this prospect, to make a clean start in a place where no one knows her, as she had done in Paris. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After we read Ralph Waldo Emerson in class, I wrote “My Philosophy of Life,” which I intended for the start of a book but could get only three pages out of it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the kiddos, everyone but me, who is horrified at this clown, jump up and down like he’s handing out chocolate-covered cotton candy, and Uncle Robert takes Shawn’s hand and starts toward the lineup. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And then right afterward she had a bad worry feeling in her and she started to let him come back. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But this time it wasn’t enough and one of them maybe a Sioux or some Eskimos started showing off. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he started speaking, the students murmured to each other. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be many sick now the rains had started. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Um, okay. Okay. For that story, we have to start with a different story.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’ve been playing basketball almost every day of my life for the past three years. I’ll be eighteen soon. He’s getting older. It’s time I started whipping him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started telling her about the lockers as she unpacked the Styrofoam containers, the smell of pupusas and frijoles and rice filling the room, and he realized that he had dreamed of something like this. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was figuring the problem in my head but started imagining him on a train, getting here faster. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We started moving our hands in unison, up and down, changing the chant into the frenzied cry of “War! War! War!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Corporal, momentarily flustered, started to say something, stopped, and walked away. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

"That's my work," I said coldly, determined to stop any interference from the start. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to lift the lid of the precious container of serum. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s his first day, and it has not started well. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then she hopped down on the ground, turned her back on me, and started scratching up the dirt. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when this is all over, we can go start a new life somewhere,” she said one day. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I started, for I had not realised I was goggling at him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I started digging I fed the turkeys, made sure War Chief had water, then picked up my shovel. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was actually starting to like this girl. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Van Aakster started coming at the end of last week and has been here every day since.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He started giving me the jewelry when I was seven. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Moments after Dona Maria left, just as we were getting ready for bed, Torito started moaning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But as soon as listeners started nodding, it became very persuasive. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about what it would be like to start seventh grade in a new middle school and can imagine acting the same way. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Before I could say anything else, though, the bell rang for class to start. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My mother, father, and I were going to stay in a hotel overnight and start across the continent the next morning, May 24, in our new Dodge. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then on Thursday night, I go home and Tiny calls me, and some things start happening. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

My bangs are finally growing out, and I’m starting to look like my old self, even if I don’t feel like her. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then Anise drags me up by my hair and the game starts all over again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After he left, I put on my pajamas and bathrobe and my old hunting hat, and started writing the composition. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She let out a laugh that sounded more like an exhalation, and her lower lip started to shake. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“So I know folks in this other bigger place, but the good thing about this one is they’ll get you a work visa and start your green card process.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Addie goes, all huffy, “it’s about time you started paying attention.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And since she and her boyfriend never saw the show before, they were technically “virgins,” which meant they would have to do all these embarrassing things before the show started to get “initiated.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maya’s eyes were starting to well up again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Brian’s feet were in my face, so I grabbed him by the ankles and started chewing on his toes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But two or three years later, every other car maker didn’t suddenly start making cars that looked like the Edsel, the way everyone started copying the Aeron. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The wind, which was enjoying the conversation, started to blow with greater force, so that the sun would not blind the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aibileen picks up another fiddlehead, starts washing its long stem, the curly green ends. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even though our little group at Yar’s home had started to feel like a family, a safe place, it couldn’t fill the hole in my heart left by my missing parents. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fine drizzle started drifting down from the gray sky, and I grew very depressed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I watched helplessly as Dragonwings started to turn, but the right side of its wings brushed the hillside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow we start shipping the computers out,” he said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be like that, sugar,” he called, and the raucous laughter started again behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The factory was not yet ready to start producing ammunition. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Ralph started to chew through the side of the pocket closest to the heartbeat. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

As for Blanca, I didn’t want to think too much about her, for I might have broken down and started crying in public, embarrassing the hell out of myself. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Three of the men started laughing, but the smallest one was rattled; he lifted the rifle and aimed it at us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The record started and I began to lip-synch the longest song of my life. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to do, so I started by repeating Longneck’s words. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You need to go down with Mike and the rest of the group. Where are Pete and Todd? Ask them to look after Beck, then start down.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dropping the paper back on the money, he turned, picked up an old turkey-feather duster, and started dusting where there was no dust. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we started to make deliveries I was afraid of going near the houses, but I was even more afraid of being left alone on the wagon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter he made his wife recite the prayer at the start of each meal, even on formal occasions, when there were guests in the house. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom started to say something, but I got out of the car and ran, hoping the redheaded girl wouldn’t see me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A jar of peanut butter had crashed to the floor; someone had gotten a running start, jumped into it, and skied a brown, onefooted track to the stove. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Chet, but only because Mr. Frederick was about to start talking again. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t take Brigid on to teach, but how could she begrudge her a chance to start? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t really know what to say about that, except that I start crying for no real reason sometimes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He reaches out and smacks a large white hand on my shoulder and starts to rock me back and forth, like he’s thinking of shoving me off my feet altogether. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The mosquitoes are ruthless once we start to sweat. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if medicine will help, but I think talking with Rachel has already started helping me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

At once, her huge well-trained jaws started chewing away on it like a pair of tongs. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

How do you start an email to a father you haven’t seen in ten years? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Frances was a little drunk and would have liked to have kept it up but the coffee came, and Lavigne with the liqueurs, and after that we all went out and started for Braddocks's dancing-club. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They rounded a corner, and from around another corner just up ahead, a kind of drunken mumbling was starting to get louder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s even starting to sound like him,” Mike blubbered with his mouth full. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll start with them to see if they can help me get some students to New York to accept this prestigious award in person. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, give it a while. After a few days you start to notice people’s clothes, seeing as how they all wear the same stuff every day.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mark followed just as the landing pad above him started to rotate, the bushes and earth and small trees heading back toward the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Scaly animals were starting to look for new homes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I ’spected Quincy to run up the steps to our house and start packing. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Noodles took the pink yarn and the needles like taking a baton in a relay race, and started up the steps, two at a time. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When she saw me standing there, she started to cry. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I got nervous and we started talking about the book we’re reading in language arts class. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But after ’while you’re old enough and you got to own up to what you did, right or wrong, and couldn’t no one tell me that all this horribleness didn’t start with me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I know you started wearing a new cologne. That citrus scent. Is it to impress her?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Tariq liked to think himself a wordsmith, so it all got worse after they started hanging around. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, I just think,” Mom starts to say—but then her phone buzzes in her lap. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So I started walking, but Siobhan said I didn’t have to describe everything that happens, I just have to describe the things that were interesting. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Does someone start it at quitting time, I wonder, now that she is dead? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ahmed opens up the car door and says we should get going, so I quickly crawl into the backseat of the car before I start to seriously cry. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He stopped automatically before each house where milk was to be left and never started up again until she was safely in the seat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved over to the seat he had left and he started the car and we drove on. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He threw the stone into the cypress tree and started the white pigeons on another whirling flight. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started walking again, and we followed her, but I wondered if she would have kept talking even if we hadn’t followed her. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He started to answer when he heard someone shouting. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Phoebe said, “Come on,” and she started up the walk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She got up and started in clearing the coffee things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It starts like this: I really want to see you today. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I first started butting heads with Dad in 1948—I was only nine—because he dragged us away from Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I started to speak and turn at the same time, Good morning, Jeffy. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine, then let’s go to the band room together. Band starts in thirteen minutes; we can practice for the concert.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I first started school, I could read on a second-grade level, and it was suggested that I be put into that grade. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

These names bothered me in sixth grade when I was excited to start middle school and make friends. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Jutta clutches her bag between her knees; she is certain that he was wounded in the war, that he will try to start a conversation, that her deficient French will betray her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On more than one occasion, she would start to read a poem by Poe or Longfellow, only to hear him finish it for her, from memory. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Seeing her next to the Grand Elder, the madwoman realized with a start that after all these years, Sister Ignatia had never seemed to age. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He was leaving his tip and all and he was starting to go. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

When he hit the floor, he started running. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And if you tell somebody they’re lying all the time, they start to believe you a little. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As somebody started up our front walk, carrying the obligatory gigantic shopping bag, I would say, OK, Jeff, what do you think — frowny or cheery? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many times she started to write to him, she crafted e-mails, and then stopped and discarded them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My head goes light, my body floats away, and I start to fall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Here Joe’s hat tumbled off the mantel-piece, and he started out of his chair and picked it up, and fitted it to the same exact spot. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“No, that last one ended, we went back to school and then they started another one.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The doctor in charge of the study, the one who’d started the distant healing research—she was the daughter of some chess champion or something, remember?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Once I started, I couldn’t seem to stop talking. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the violin started playing, they became attentive, got up, and went on tiptoe to the hall door, at which they remained standing pressed up against one another. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he started chanting joyously, teasingly, the master of his tongue again, “I love you, Dad. I love you, Dad. I love you. I love you. I love you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before we start, I want your dementor essays,” said Snape, waving his wand carelessly, so that twenty-five scrolls of parchment soared into the air and landed in a neat pile on his desk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I sit on my hand because it’s started to shake, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

That at least Cato, Clove, and Thresh will be on hand when the feast starts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He hung his helmet on a peg, stripped off his boots and coveralls, and got into the shower and started lathering up with Lava soap. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She gave one to me and started folding the next one. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s kind of a long story, and I need to start my art project.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He started to swoop at the biddy with his tractor- grease hands, but Rosaleen planted herself in front of him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so humiliated I almost started to cry. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I completely forgot that there was a live audience, and I started having fun. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I always know when I’m about to panic because my knees and neck both start to tingle. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

While she was saying this, I was thinking, We just finished the freakin’ Egypt project, now we have to start a whole new thing? Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Luke didn’t want to start a fight, but if they stacked up the evidence side by side, he was pretty sure the case for Lily would crumble. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Oh, goodness no. I just know that starting high school can be a difficult transition for any young girl. I can only imagine how much harder it is under your circumstances." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He started breathing heavily, and a panicky feeling made him want to stop the blessing immediately. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Matt started a fire with a lighter he found in the backpack. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to step around him to get downstairs but his eyes wander into Chantal’s room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I started folding up the little square of Snickers paper to put it back in my pocket, and Branwell reached across the table and put his fingertips on the back of my hand. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I agree, sometimes it’s good to start over. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I remember the day_I started thinking this, it was such a revelation to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope to God, for your sake, that nothing funny starts to happen.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We started a beef with the dude behind the counter. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other news, my equipment is starting to show signs of age. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not such a terrible place to start, but the joy of accomplishment wears off fairly quickly. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Manman pulled the meat and plantains out of her pocket and started eating a piece to fill the silence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Tilly and I headed upriver just as it started to rain hard again. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Cressida directs the team to start with me at my old house. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It worries me that the other girls have a head start on this since their families are already friends with the movers and shakers of Ecuador. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But farming takes too long. I’ve gotten so used to the trading. How can I start something new?” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I watched the eggs start to turn white. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All at once the men started to put bows on their foreheads and run out the front door. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Chino,” he said when he saw me start to walk toward the roof s door again. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Three steps past Ms. Warner and they start. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We start this evening and finish tomorrow afternoon,” said August. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls dropped their work, hauled out paper bags of lunch, ripped the bags open to form a tablecloth, spread out their onion-garnished sandwiches and started to eat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were so many times I started to say something, but I just couldn’t. Locke said if I could endure, it would be a test of love.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We held our breath as the picture started rolling. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d go anywhere to be with my parents, but I had already started a life in Grand Island. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I mean she's had all A's ever since she started school. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m terrible sorry, Elijah, but a ball done started rolling downhill what ain’t gunn be stopped. We both going to Michigan.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to go to the rooftree of Maine to start my trip before turning west. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean if you're good at writing compositions and somebody starts talking about commas. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I have a late settlement appointment. Can you take Emma to soccer? Practice starts at five.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They made their way under the graceful arches of a stone bridge, around a long, sweeping bend in the lake, and up the straightaway to the starting stalls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"You wahn know who started it?" a man holding a pair of binoculars called from the window of a pawnshop. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma started making brownies, and Shawn and I went upstairs to choose a movie. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ralph started back to the shelters with Jack by his side. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He'd talked with her father for a long time when they arrived, and even though the two of them disagreed about almost everything, Nok liked the old monk right from the start. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The song started out with a jangly, quiet guitar and a voice that sounded sad but a little hopeful, too. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, she would start in on a story about the boys. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What were you working on before all the screaming started?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And then the teachers told my parents they had to feed him more, so my mom started giving him extra sadza every morning from the night before. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs Wormwood said to him, "You should read the label on the tube before you start messing with dangerous products. Always follow the instructions on the label." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad couldn’t get the spotlight working, so he started cussing and pounding on it with the heel of his hand. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I break out in a cold sweat every time she starts chatting about it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“And then, if we keep walking dogs and making money, maybe I’ll have enough to buy my camera by the time school starts again. I can start filming this fall!” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to watch the first half of the game with Mom and Annie and her dad, but Mr. Finkle said the crowd might start a riot if they saw me before halftime. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the first physical science class of the new year, Mr. Ferris set Clarence on the front lab table and started him rocking. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that she had to get out of the house and start looking for Robbie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As they did, the adrenaline that had taken over for Luke started to slip away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“A tree starts out thin and small, sort of like...” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On that night I had started on my way to becoming a Harlemite. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their way in, Ridgeway told them that a lightning strike must have started the fire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“In orbit around Uranus,” I tell him, which makes everyone laugh, and it starts a whole round of rude puns that all sound Cirque-ish, because I’ve already checked out again. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But in that moment, the water in the kettle had finally started to boil in front of me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Do you know how many white strangers show up on Indian reservations every year and start telling Indians how much they love them? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We started walking, and eventually my guide said, “Okay, Joseph. I have to leave you now. The terminal’s not far; just go around here, take a left and a right and you’ll be there.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Chris was twelve, he printed up a stack of flyers and started a neighborhood copy business, Chris’s Fast Copies, offering free pickup and delivery. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was whistling as I started up the driveway. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The universe would have started in a smooth and ordered state, and would become lumpy and disordered as time went on. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get her out of her trance so she would start the car and drive them back to Abba. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Concentrating, I reached for the rhythm of the story thread inside, and I spoke the sentence Nana started every one of her stories with. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She started talking to Mandela again, advising him. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“This will start the countdown on the rigged Artifacts,” he says. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I packed away my supplies before the concert started, Colton walked over with a boy about a foot taller. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But she had no idea the storm was just getting started, because that's also when she started eating. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Otto shut his sketchbook, Perry put down his guitar, and the Cowboy raised anchor, started the engine. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start writing to Tom, writing and deleting, writing and deleting, trying to find ways to ask forgiveness for the things I said last night. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she started down the driveway toward the car, I had this weird feeling that my brother was getting smaller and smaller. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will love this child and raise her knowing that I did the right thing from the start. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Annabeth got to her feet, Tyson started smashing at the monster heads with his fists so fast it reminded me of the whack-a-mole game at the arcade. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got Old Flap back in his stall, shut the stable door, and started walking home. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I started wondering if the birds of sadness had built their nest in Mrs. Cadaver’s hair afterward, and if so, how she got rid of them. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She was starting to look tired all the time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I became notorious for being that guy, so much so that people started coming up to me in line. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They do, however, claim that we are not cultivated and refined to the same extent. To remove this impression, the thought and work of this bureau has been mostly bent from the start.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I had to start dressing like a boy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We know how they are, the first quarter you start hittin ’em a couple of times, get a couple of sticks on ’em, they want to quit.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom and Dad got up there, the Costellos started asking them about the meeting in our great room—how it had gone and who had said what. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started tenuously down the fixed lines, stiff with dread. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, ten minutes before school started, Sissy was in that classroom confronting the teacher. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My nightmare started out as something I’d dreamed a million times before: I was being forced to take a standardized test while wearing a straitjacket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Tell me quick what to do before it starts falling out!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I figured that if American children learned English through books, so could I, even if I was starting later. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s starting to rain,” I say, as if she doesn’t know this. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She stared out the window, at New Pretty Town, where the fireworks were starting. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Neville whimpered as boils started to pop up all over his nose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

This one day just before school was supposed to start I was moping around the back yard and thinking again how pointless and stupid everything was and Grim comes over and says, ''You know what? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Do you know how many blocks there were before the houses started thinning out after the library? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as I hit the court, Eddie looked up and started clapping. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I went up to my room and started reading the new book Bill gave me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

"There's a dreadful moment for me just when the bull starts for the horse." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Near the start there’s a scene where Clint Eastwood doesn't know if he has a bullet left in his gun to shoot the baddie. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Peeta stops shading a blossom and looks up so suddenly that I start, as though I were caught spying on him, which in a strange way maybe I was. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Have a good time,” she said listlessly, and started out the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The marchers down south didn't just up and start their marching—it was part of a longer, bigger plan, that maybe belonged to God. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

That glossary isn’t complete—there are hundreds of the flowers of rhetoric in the overstuffed greenhouse of oratory—but it should provide a solid starting point. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Carmine feels the change in me and starts to whimper. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered what Mum had said when I started at secondary school last autumn. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane bounced hard inside an air pocket, and he remembered with a start that he had left his own parachute up front in the nose. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s easy,” I say, and I head over to my table to start writing. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

All of them started half laughing and half covering their eyes now, pushing each other and cursing loudly. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of sobering up, he started to get delirium tremens. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had all started when I was in fifth grade and we were looking for something to do. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Sponge shouted, waving her fat arms and starting to dance around in circles. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The beast started for Nhamo with its red tongue lolling out of its mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cooking is women’s work, same as sewing. Act like a man, Robbie. Go outside and get your hands dirty. You don’t start toughening up, I might have to drown that cat of yours.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Groovy,” I said, and Faisal laughed so hard he started sweat­ing all over again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters started following Mom around—even into the bathroom in a store—and she lost her patience. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He started to roll the window up and then stopped. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I got a case of the giggles, and then Summer and Ximena started giggling. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But it's as if he's some kind of mind reader, because he says: "I'm going to start running. Tomorrow is my first day." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She started to cry and run out of the room and ever- body looked at me and I saw alot of them wasnt the same pepul who use to be in my class. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed and laughed, slapping his knee and patting his chest and throwing his head back, all the way across the field until he reached Lu and Ghost up by the hundred-meter start line. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Look, the shadowshapers...It’s a lot to explain. I’m not really sure where to start...” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

So I started to sing: All along this Christian journey, I want Jesus to walk with me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If you would’ve just listened to me, we would be fighting the Nightbeast right now. Instead we have to start from scratch, our time’s running out, and it’s all on you!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But then he takes a running start and slides down the lane about six feet. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He started weeping then, and Jam stared, disgust sliding around in her stomach. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Hours pass and still she makes no move and when I know it’s well past school time I start the fire for the kettle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I just know I’m back at the start with no idea which way to go. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Kelly started to giggle, and George joined her until the two of them curled into howling balls of laughter, occasionally shouting things like “I can’t perform under these conditions!” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then my grandma broke down even more, started sobbing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s called photomarking. When anyone in the picture is murdered, their face gets smudged out. Wick hadn’t started on his crusade yet, but I saw it in him, I knew it wouldn’t be long.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Everything finally seemed to be starting to turn golden. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He left the storeroom, banging the door behind him, and started for his sleeping mat under the tree. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She had started laughing and apologizing at the same time. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko started up the car and headed for his apartment. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started screaming something about this being his neighborhood too. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The rest looked like they knew they still had a few days of summer freedom coming and they sure didn’t want to start thinking about school any more than we did. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Don’t But you know, he had started to cry. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the starting gate he broke through over and over again, delaying the start for three minutes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a contract with my studio to fulfill, Warcross or no. The others told me to come up here and get you. They’re starting a round of games downstairs, if you want to join.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wrote that they started with £573 in the bank and £36 cash in hand. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why he was started anyway is not known, but it seems a shame that his unbeaten record for the eastern invasion was not kept unsullied.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And how do we get everybody in the school to start selling the chocolates, Archie?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was now competing in local and state meets against gymnasts who were much older and taller than me, I was starting to win medals regularly. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The third task is clean, so let’s start there, shall we? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Stuart started early, to avoid traffic. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The problem with that was that he hadn’t seen one clearing since they’d started flying over the forest. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before my birthday party had started, Chapter Eleven had been down in his basement laboratory, using a hacksaw on a newfangled Titleist that advertised a “liquid center.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ser Jorah started to rise, the widow snapped her fan closed, her scarred man slid out of the shadows .,. and behind them a girl screamed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He shook the reins and we started rolling. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents start talking to each other in Urdu, the primary and personal language they share. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I took the list and promised I would start doing the exercises. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She looked me over once more, then started down the stairs without a word. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my pocketbook and started back over the cold stones to where my shoes kept their vigil in the violet light. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She starts to get up from beneath the covers. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Tyson was starting to have trouble with the sheep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Next Milton’s car started up and began backing down the drive. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I progressed well for the first few days, until my kidneys started malfunctioning. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Cove is standing at the start point, idly dangling his staff. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“She probably started making that sweater for you on the way to the hospital,” Lt. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started in, but I shut her off. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to my room and get online and start reading about e. e. cummings. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I thus started wondering whether each DNA molecule consisted of two chains with identical base sequences held together by hydrogen bonds between pairs of identical bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Petey went yelling into the living room as Luke sighed and started down the walkway. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Britt-Marie and Laury both draw back in surprise, then look at each other before shifting their gazes between me and him and starting to smirk and make their eyebrows dance. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He said, “If everyone will take their places, we can get started.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to start laughing, too, and soon we were both hysterical, lying on our backs, tears running down our cheeks, slapping our feet on the porch floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They were looking for their husbands, sons, and grandsons. They wanted to know that their loved ones were safe. Many of them were angry at the Long Knives. So that’s when it started.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

These bricks, added to the secret project I had started in my room last night, might really add up to something. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Then, of course, after this years fifty are assigned, we start fresh, after the Ceremony, with new ones coming in gradually. It’s like a little vacation!” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. Truly, I am innocent,” I said, but could speak no more without starting to weep. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He didn’t lower his left hand until his legs started to ache, and he didn’t move his other foot until he absolutely had to. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder if after a while your body starts to wear down when you don’t listen to that fight-or-flight response. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And I started laughing again, too, because laughs like that are contagious. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I leave Adam, Kim, and Willow in the lobby and I just start careening through the hospital. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the start of the journey, they had zigzagged down the curvy river, traveling about sixty miles, which averaged to seven and a half miles a day so far. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She even gets me shoes, saying I have to get used to them before school starts. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I could see him freaking out and starting to cry while we were trying to sneak past a monster or something. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I went out and started putting in the first claymore. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime that December I had started dropping the “Aunt” out of her name, mostly because I knew that it annoyed her. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I started to run out of the house, but then I stopped and turned around. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It looked foolish and he started to throw it away, but changed his mind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick him up, and he grabs onto me and starts sobbing, again saying, “I’m so sorry,” over and over again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought about what Chiron had told me when I started my quest—that a hero should never harm mortals unless absolutely necessary. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But I push away the wondering when it starts to draw me too far back. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we started middle school, sometimes she feels like a new person. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He outlined a concept for a second lab as initially “a small group ... in support of Los Alamos and controlled thermonuclear work. . . We’ll start small and see what happens.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We’ll start with these and then when you know English better, you can read these.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” he said, taking a deep breath, “just lie back on that cot and we’ll get started. Now, please.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The piece of black tape that covered her perpetually illuminated “check engine” light starting to peel off. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He starts to scream, but Guarino quickly pushes a wad of cloth into his mouth. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It started with what Reader lovingly referred to as his Cell Factory. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I started writing my complaint determined not to reveal that I was an attorney. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No one in the setdement knew exacdy what had happened, but Lana had insisted from the start that care needed to be taken in case they were dealing with something contagious. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I look up at his face, perfect teeth, perfect skin, and he’s just started to grow his hair out and is wearing it in a short Afro. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

As I tried to work my left leg free, I put all my weight on my right leg, until it started to sink as well. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And then Beans started having to go to the bathroom, or so he said. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Till the sun started going down and everybody packed up to leave. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I start the hour-and-a-half trek it will take to cover our snare line. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple started to shake her head and then stopped. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“She could run fast. If you were racing her, you couldn’t ever let her get a head start, because she would beat you for sure.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d learned the lessons I was supposed to learn and done well enough at the start of the year to progress to grade two. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Hannah starts to join me, but she ends up waving her palm in a so-so sign and shrugs. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Ouch. And then your internship starts—” Dill carefully plucked a ladybug from his arm and held it in his palm so that it could fly away. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I do up his nearly bald head and shoulders and then start putting the most complicated, unnecessary, wild highways through him from ear to ear. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“If they thought you were any good, they would have started you this Saturday,” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And all I could think about was how much I wished I had kissed him one last time before he started fearing me for what I was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And Fred wanted Gold to start recruiting other spies with technical knowledge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Dad told me the children’s names, I started crying. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They stand to the side of the crowd and start to play their instruments. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe my luck was starting to change. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He started to say something, but it came out a low gurgle. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And I had started a funny habit: I sometimes found myself looking in the mirror and giving speeches. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid, who never understood the gravity of things, started smiling and laughing, pointing at Brave Orchid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five weeks earlier my grandmother had given me her old riding lawn mower and I’d started mowing lawns. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I started this mission with six square meters and I've used up most of that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those wild butterflies are back in my belly, and I can’t wait to start running so they will go away, or at least they’ll get tired and relax. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They raised prices at the start of the teaching period when demand was high, only to offer bargains at the end of the term when there was no longer a need for a specimen. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I heard a shout and we turned to see the men start after us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When the second plane hit, the woman who was giving the news started to scream. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She started tucking her hair back under her paper hat. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If I keep looking out the window, I'll see the snow settle on the paths again, cover the trees where hints of branches have started to show through. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We may translate this to mean that he started the process of carving a statue by trying to visualize a figure in the rough, rectilinear block as it came to him from the quarry. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The project she had in mind was a book about Shakespeare and ciphers, like the one she had started during World War I. And Riverbank would be part of the story. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“He gets started with the church stuff, and suddenly everything he wants is ‘God’s will’ for me. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Son, school starts soon. We better load your stuff and you can drop me off or I’m going to be late.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to lower myself to the ground. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

While we packed the breakfast dishes, Papa went outside to start the “Carcachita.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch, I cleaned the pipes, swept off the floor, and started the boiler. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally was convinced he had interested us in astronomy, Dad started a new series of wall paintings dealings with stars. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We started walking to his room where we could talk privately. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I push past him, walking away from the mirror cave and the sculpture, and start down the sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’d known it from the moment the duel started, and began sweating when she had the opportunity to bestow a winning blow and failed to deliver it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I am starting to dread what this has to do with my mother. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

August started to sing then in a humming sort of way, “ ‘Mary brought forth her firstborn child and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger.’ The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

High school casts always get to know each other well—if they don’t start out as friends, they become close over the course of the production. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She gave the beastkeeper another nod, more final, and he started to escort her out of the tent. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So he and the council had decided to move them to new homes and blow up the building and start again. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I slowed down, fell into a trot, and then just started to walk. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I stood there looking at that picture for a long time—even after the typing and dinging started up again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t say anything, but she immediately starts to yell as if she already hears my breath. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She just started learning numbers, and so everything she sees, she counts up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“If you start behaving like a grownup, the Specters’ll get you,” she said, but she didn’t know whether she could tease him yet or whether she should be afraid of him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley must have looked surprised, because Mr. Sir went on to explain that they started early to avoid the hottest part of the day "No one is going to baby-sit you," he added. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

At dawn when the clamor started again I left and went back to the headland. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked over to him and started working on the glasses, and we stepped through the kitchen in silence, with nothing but the sound of clinking dishware. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I woke with a start sometime later to the sound of Aech’s ringtone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But the opposition had still won, and unlike most African losers, Banda agreed to leave quietly and not start a war. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we must start somewhere,” she said with a sigh. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure what the first part meant, but he was starting to have an idea about the second. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But when the Central Valley started to dry up and the price of produce skyrocketed, people started to pay attention. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He would start pulling my clothes off, saying, “We are going to do this!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But when he opened his mouth a third time, she smiled and slowly started walking, dragging him behind her. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Wab started the work of putting out the fire safely, but she had an odd serenity in her movements. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“So that our propos will air in the Capitol, too. He’s down working on it in Special Defense now. There’s live programming tonight. Snow’s making an appearance or something. I think it’s starting.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I went back under my fort and turned the light on and started on my first map. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had just turned thirteen and become bar mitzvah when I started my apprenticeship at the Yiddish newspaper in Kielce. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We start moving up the avenue again, street numbers climbing, which means we're going in the right direction. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fires were started in buildings throughout the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hephaestus chariot was starting to gain on us, too. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took one look at the three of us and started rubbing the back of her hand against her forehead. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My little brothers must have been excited too because they started whispering and giggling. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would hear them talking about war that was either going on at the time or that was about to start. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mustafa starts to protest but quits when he sees that Mama isn’t going to budge. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You started up with Jimmy when it wasn’t anything really going on,” Nick said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

His hands started to slide off the wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she started walking all through the rooms, just shaking her head at the way Grandma and I kept things. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she thought she was nearly finished, she noticed that the next shelf started up again with Browne. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patti sounds as if she's given up before she even started, and I'm not sure how to fight the hopelessness I hear in her voice. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And almost as if to prove her mother right, that little baby girl starts up a serious crying spell that brings Dofta Isabel’s soft tap at the bedroom door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started through the field of tall grass. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I came early, days before the start of the new year. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It seems that Webb and Forbes started missing cheerleading practices and meetings. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I started to write “Happy Birthday” on the frosted windows. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petra, writing in neat purple ink, started a new page with the heading "Facts about Vermeer." Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he ordered his son into a stance and told him to fire off and start blocking. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He frowns down at his stomach that’s just starting to poke out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

East Bank was where the government had gone in, cleared out the squatters and their shacks, and started to build actual homes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Later, when we started meeting secretly for dinner, we still divided the bill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did I even start talking about desserts? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Although I was only five, I knew it shouldn't be locked now, as some people would come in late, even after the sermon started. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

First, before the experiment even started, they gave the students a questionnaire about why they had chosen to study theology. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I call his name, start toward him until a nurse pushes me back and shuts me out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I imagine Ellie entered on a Tuesday right after school started and people went to work. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and started to slowly curl my fingers. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A few moments later my mother calmly turned around and started back down the steps, still holding the yarn. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She sobbed and hugged Aunt Gloria, saying it couldn’t possibly be Salim, while Dad started throwing outdoor clothes on over his pyjamas and Kat stood there, gripping me. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could only get Rado’s dam engine started, Abbey and I could escape. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

His creator, Edgar Allan Poe, is credited with starting the detective fiction genre in 1841. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He finished it in two days and started again, rolling the words round his tongue, memorizing some sentences: The slaves became as fearful of the tar as of the lash. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was already starting to dissolve with embarrassment. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When he started driving a cab, it was only supposed to be a temporary job. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Ooh, good, we’re starting some new subjects today,” she said happily. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I fill the water bag and am starting back when a squirrel runs over the leaves. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parade of job seekers had started even before he took office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stephanie’s eyes start flooding, and I throw one more jab to harden the blow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I was fine. It was just a bunch of pretty flowers to me, and I started with two weeks of food.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She turned to Frances, sitting smiling, her hands folded, her head poised on her long neck, her lips pursed ready to start talking again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I know it’s not a lot, but it’s a start. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As the week dragged on, Friday night and the library lock-in started to remind Kyle of Christmas, too: It felt like they would never come. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“You said we were going to meet the others,” I tell him, starting with what I know, trying to keep up and avoid stumbling on the uneven ground. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because of the limited variety of wild starting material suitable for plant domestication, even Africa’s earliest agriculture may have begun several thousand years later than that of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t know what they did to Twelve. If he could’ve seen what was on the ground—” I start. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A rock-and-roll version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” starts blaring out of nowhere, and I glance around myself, trying to find the speakers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

From there, I start to write about my sessions with Dr. Estrada. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re skinny. It’s called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let’s go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds we start moving again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He helped Jess up and started to lead her to the chopper. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He started with Chester, to follow the order in which the transgressions had occurred, and called for their bloody backs to be scrubbed out with pepper water afterward. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I covertly used some sympathy to start the fire while Denna cobbled together a couple cooking skewers out of forked willow branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I grab the water pail and start to water the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Once the water starts flowing in the new channel,” Woods said, "it is almost impossible to put it back in the old as the new channel rapidly downcuts and establishes itself.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He started to walk up the fire escape. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then I curled my fingers around that green pencil, and I started to draw. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were just cruising around when a bee started flying near us. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kids started to do everything the grown-ups were doing and more. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad started work at Arizona State College, and Mom stayed home and started having babies. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

At some point, I just starting asking Dad for money to buy new pairs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

After my success at Hollands, I asked Mom if I could start swimming with the rest of my classmates. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And when it's real short, you can see where it starts out as curls. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Other vendors along the street were starting to arrange their wares—rubber sandals, wool shawls, toys, baskets of pomegranates, cinnamon sticks, and cloves. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to start charging at the door. Keep out the trash.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Owls were flying this night, shrieking to start their prey, and a nighthawk made soft rhythmic whoops in the distance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s started to rain harder, the kind of lashing rain that stings when it hits your skin. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Russians are taking part in the campaign; yesterday they started their offensive near Vitebsk, exactly three years to the day that the Germans invaded Russia. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Load up and prepare for battle,” David hollered as Magdalys hurried off to gather the orphans and start boarding. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The eminent director of the lab, Charles Davenport, recently had started a Eugenics Record Office there. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Little Willy waved good-bye as Searchlight started off down Main Street. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ideas and hope started sparking together inside me, reminding me of the way my mother used to be—excited by science and life and questions. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My feet burn when I start walking again on the stones and dirt off the highway. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Apple Jacks box was a problem, and I started to get a bit scared when at first I couldn’t find it, but then I saw it floating, the paper box dissolving like a wafer. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z