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Jcsp library project Reading promotion - 10 great opening lines

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Martin Brown

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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Junior Certificate School Programme Demonstration Library Project 10th10th AnniversaryAnniversary www.jcspliteracy.ie 1100 GGrreeaatt OOppeenniinngg LLiinneess.......... 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

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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 OOppeenniinngg LLiinneess.......... 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