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Harvest

“All harvesttime Cinderellis couldn’t wait for his brothers to see his vegetables. His carrots were sweeter than maple syrup. His tomatoes were redder than red paint. And his potatoes were so beautiful, you could hardly look at them.” —CINDERELLIS AND THE GLASS HILL by Gail Carson Levine

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on October 10, 2023September 25, 2023Format ImageCategories #MGCarousel Book QuotesTags #MGCarousel Topic: Fall / AutumnLeave a comment on Harvest

Wall-to-Wall

“Bagels and Joe can’t be more than the size of your average motel room, but it is wall-to-wall jars of roasted coffee beans. It smells nutty and warm on this cold September morning. No one looks for a truant in a place like this.” —TUNE IT OUT by Jamie Sumner

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on October 3, 2023September 25, 2023Format ImageCategories #MGCarousel Book QuotesTags #MGCarousel Topic: Fall / AutumnLeave a comment on Wall-to-Wall

Unclipped

Though Tuck was the same blue-black coloring as the Royal ravens, he was smaller, and because he was wild, his wings were not clipped. He was free to fly where he wished, which was usually as close to Forrest as he could get. —THE RAVENMASTER’S SECRET: ESCAPE FROM THE TOWER OF LONDON by Elvira Woodruff

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Crow of a Boy

If Douglas was a crow of a boy, then Lowell Pumphrey was his pal scarecrow. —DEATH AND DOUGLAS by J. W. Ocker

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Chicken Legs

My house has chicken legs. Two or three times a year, without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we’ve been living. —THE HOUSE WITH CHICKEN LEGS by Sophie Anderson

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No Choice

Ever seen a line of newly hatched ducklings jump one after the other into a stream? Not knowing what was coming, but with no choice but to follow the others, and to leap and hope? That was us, going through that door. —THE CREEPING SHADOW by Jonathan Stroud

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Smarty Pants

Mrs. Hoskins across the street has a parrot named Smarty Pants who can say the alphabet all the way up to Q. —DANGER! TIGER CROSSING by Lin Oliver

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Feathers and Droppings

“One of the long windows of the hall flew open with a clap and let in a stream of birds. Most of them were ordinary birds: sparrows, starlings, pigeons, blackbirds, and thrushes, swooping around the hall in vast numbers and shedding feathers and droppings as they swooped.” —WITCH WEEK by Diana Wynne Jones

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Wise and Handsome

“All that week Ramona stared at the owls above the blackboard. Cross-eyed owls, paste-waster’s owls with eyes that had skidded off in all directions, one-eyed owls made by those so anxious not to waste paste they had not used enough, and right in the center Susan’s wise and handsome owl copied from Ramona’s owl.” —RAMONA THE BRAVE by Beverly Cleary

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Birdsong

“Nashville’s mother had a voice like footsteps in new winter snow. Some say the birds in Goosepimple sang differently after they heard her. Some say they were never the same.” —BEYOND THE LAUGHING SKY by Michelle Cuevas

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