Jcsp library project Reading promotion - 10 great opening lines
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This document contains 10 opening lines from famous young adult books. The lines provide snippets of intrigue from stories about unexpected visitors in the night, dogs that learn to talk, a boy who disappeared on his birthday, life as a hobbit, violence and death, the afterlife, and soldiers kicking down a door in the night.
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Jcsp library project Reading promotion - 10 great opening lines
1. Junior Certificate
School Programme
Demonstration
Library
Project
10th10th AnniversaryAnniversary
www.jcspliteracy.ie
1100 GGrreeaatt
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1. 'When the doorbell rings at three in the
morning, it’s never good news.'
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz.
2. 'The first thing you find out when yer dog
learns to talk is that dogs don't got
nothing much to say. About anything.'
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick
Ness
3. ' Gordon’s Edgley’s sudden death came
as a shock to everyone – not least himself'
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
4. 'The knife that killed me was a special
knife'
The Knife That Killed Me by Anthony
McGowan
5. 'It’s a funny thing about mothers and
fathers. Even when their own child is the
most disgusting little blister you could
ever imagine, they still think that he or she
is wonderful.'
Matilda by Roald Dahl
6. 'I disappeared on the night before my
twelfth birthday.'
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael
Morpurgo
7. ’In a hole in the ground there lived a
hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty wet hole, filled
with the ends of worms and an oozy
smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with
nothing in it to sit down on or to eat. It
was a hobbit hole and that means
comfort’
The Hobbit by JR Tolkien
8. 'First the crack of bone, then the gush of
blood'
Taking Flight by Sheena Wilkinson
9. 'Ever wondered where you go when
you’re dead?'
Breaking Free by Tim Bowler
10. 'As the family lay sleeping, soldiers kicked
down the door of the house and entered,
waving their rifles around erratically and
shouting at the top of their voices'
Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah