Book Quotes – Page 36 – Middle Grade Carousel

Pillage

"The train choked as it moved up the mountain pass. The windows began to blur with small drops of water. The water swirled around the window in wispy gray patterns." —Pillage by Obert Skye

The Key to Extraordinary

"Whenever I ride on the back of my granny Blue's motorcycle, I feel like it's only the two of us and the wild, endless air." —The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

Bike in Place

Mom says physical exercise is healthy and important but it’s risky and dangerous. So, I have a bike but it’s stationary. She’s too worried I’ll fall and injure myself to let me out on the open road. Or even the open driveway. But I have complete freedom to bike in place as long as I wear a helmet.

The Incredible Magic of Being
Kathryn Erskine

Erskine, Kathryn - The Incredible Magic of Being

Henry, Kansas

The Henry on the bus was not a town in Kansas. He was simply a twelve-year-old boy on a slow bus from Boston.

100 Cupboards
N. D. Wilson

100 Cupboards by ND Wilson

We the Children

"Staying with Dad meant coming home after school to an empty sailboat, an old thirty-foot yawl named Tempus Fugit—Latin for "Time Flies". —We the Children by Andrew Clements