#MGCarousel Book Quotes – Page 21 – Middle Grade Carousel

Failed Attempt

“When no one was looking, Annabel tied flying again, being very careful only to jump off low places. She used all the magic words she knew and even made up some. She kissed her elbows, waving them in the air like wings, but she couldn’t fly.” –NO FLYING IN THE HOUSE by Betty Brock

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Startled

This is Not a Werewolf Story by Sandra Evans

New kid. New kid. The words fly around the showers and sinks. I can almost see them, flying up like chickadees startled from the holly tree in the woods.
This is Not a Werewolf Story by Sandra Evans

Be the Music

“Something was still missing. Controlling the plane, Nashville couldn’t help but feel what a conductor must feel using a baton to direct a symphony. But Nashville didn’t want to conduct the music. Nashville wanted to be the music. He wanted to tap-dance across the notes of the page, to visit each black circle on the sheet music like a hummingbird visits each flower. He wanted to fly.” –BEYOND THE LAUGHING SKY by Michelle Cuevas

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Strips of Silk

“So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together. First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark green and then a strip of emerald green; for Oz had a fancy to make the balloon in different shades of the color about them.” –THE WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum

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Grand Scale

“A smear of color coated the starry vault from the celestial North Pole to the horizon, pale green and delicate pink, gossamer-sheer and scintillating. It reminded Anastasia of the oil rainbows that sometimes slick parking lot puddles, but on a gobsmackingly grand scale.” –THE WITCH'S GLASS by Holly Grant

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Pumpkin Plant

It was so green. She had not known there were so many shades of green before this pumpkin plant came into their lives. —GIANT PUMPKIN SUITE by Melanie Heuiser Hill

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Green Slime

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Slime-Green

You’re judging me by my outward appearance. You doubt my word solely because I’m a skull, lurking in a jar of slime-green plasm. Admit it!” —THE EMPTY GRAVE by Jonathan Stroud

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Green Violin

When Giuseppe found the green violin, he did not think it would help him escape. —THE CLOCKWORK THREE by Matthew Kirby

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Smaug the Dragon

Everyone still standing followed Bleob (not too closely) around the castle, just in time to see Smaug the Dragon gliding in for a landing. He was truly a terrible sight—big, ugly green head trailing wisps of smoke, shimmering metal scales, huge leather wings, coiling snake body, and iron claws. —KNIGHTS OF THE KITCHEN TABLE by John Scieszka

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