#MGCarousel Book Quotes – Page 42 – Middle Grade Carousel

Choke

"I wished all my dead ancestors had cell phones. It would have been so much easier to just call them up, ask them a few questions, and be done with it." -Choke by Obert Skye

"The Grimjinx clan was one of the oldest thieving families in the Five Provinces, if not the oldest. Generations of cunning, guile, and agility should have been distilled into me, making me the perfect thief. Instead, I was a complete clutz." -The Vengekeep Prophecies by Brian Farrey

Serafina and the Black Cloak

"Feeling strangely lonesome, she turned away from the forest and gazed back at the estate. The moon rose above the steeply pitched slate roofs of the house and reflected in the panes of glass that domed the Winter Garden." —Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

Not a House

I couldn’t keep my jaw from falling open. The house was not a house, nor was it a mansion—it was somewhere between a mall and a castle. There were more chimneys and windows than any chimney or window store could ever possibly stock.

Pillage
Obert Skye

Book Cover: Pillage by Obert Skye

Diary of a Mad Brownie

"We will maintain order and cleanliness in the household we inhibit, as is good and right. FOR ARE WE NOT BROWNIES?" —Diary of a Mad Brownie by Bruce Coville

In Between

If your last name ended in “berg” or “zog” or “stein,” you lived on the north side. If your last name ended in “elli” or “ini” or “o,” you lived on the south side….my house was right smack in the middle of town. Not on the north side. Not on the south side. Just somewhere in between.

The Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt

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Tree Home

I am on my mountain in a tree home that people have passed without ever knowing that I am here. The house is a hemlock tree six feet in diameter, and must be as old as the mountain itself.

My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Book Cover: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The League of Beastly Dreadfuls

"The front yard of the McCrumpet house was, you see, a veritable minefield of garden gnomes. Mrs. McCrumpet liked to order them from the shopping channel on TV." —The League of Beastly Dreadfuls by Holly Grant

In the Moonlight

“Aye, lad, it’s an inn,” said the ragman, and all at once it came into sight, a ramshackle, three-story house, lit up bone-white in the moonlight.

The Half-A-Moon Inn
Paul Fleischman

Book Cover: The Half-A-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman

Igraine the Brave

"The castle was not large; it had only a single tower, which leaned over sideways, and the walls weren't much more than two feet thick, but Igraine thought it was the most beautiful castle in the world." —Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke