"Molly!" Maria shouted to her sister. "Would you please shut that window..."

"I stopped yelling and started happily slurping my way through an ice cream."

"Jesse was always finding bones in the great bog-oak field where they dug the peat for the winter fires."

Ever had the feeling your life's been flushed down the toilet?

Which type of hook does this story use?"Once there were four children whose names were Peter,Susan,Edmund and Lucy."

"When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself."

A long time ago, when there were dragons and wicked witches and knights in armour and fairy tales were true, there lived a beautiful princess called Princess Amanda."

"Laura's little brother George was four weeks old when it happened."

"He was especially tired of having to live in the same house as that grizzly old grunion of a Grandma. Looking after her all by himself was hardly the most exciting way to spend a Saturday morning."

"There was once a gaggle of mountains, tall and proud, each with a hat of snow."

"A thousand miles away, in a country east of the jungle and south of the mountains nations, there lived a Firework-maker called Lalchand and his daughter Lila..."

"Mr Stink stank. He also stunk."

Which type of hook does this story use?"Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches stood at the top of a high mountain surrounded by a pine forest.It looked more like a prison than a school..."