"I made you a friendship bracelet." -page 1
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Invisible
Hummingbird
May B
“People only see what they want to see most of the time.” -page 84
Invisible
Rules
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Savvy
"In books, there are always magical words, words like abracadabra that open locked doors or wake sleeping dragons or turn oceans to ice." -page 51
Invisible
Hummingbird
Savvy
Crenshaw
"When a lawyer shakes your hand and smiles with just his teeth, you best run for your life." page 88
The Crossover
Chasing Vermeer
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Crenshaw
"You can't get rid of the part that makes you you and be happy."-page 185
Savvy
Hummingbird
May B
The Crossover
"Dark doesn't bother me as much as it used to, but I can't say it pleases me, neither. In the dark, I feel the eyes of the forest upon me..." -page 19
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
May B.
"Sometimes you need to take a step back to see the bigger picture. Life is full of ups and downs, but it's how you handle them that defines who you are." -page 73
Savvy
The Crossover
Rules
Invisible
"It's not fair. She gets special treatment just because she fakes being dumb..." -page 55
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Invisible
May B
"He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream." -page 111
The BFG
May B
Hatchet
The Crossover
"You only lose what you cling to. " -page 140
May B.
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
"All of flying is easy. Just takes learning. Like everything else. Like everything else.” -page 5
Hatchet
The Crossover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Rules
"Meanings is not important." -page 34
Hatchet
Rules
The Crossover
The BFG
"I think you should go into every room anticipating two things," said a kind voice behind me. "Anticipate making new friends. And anticipate miracles. That right there is a box full of chicken-egg miracles." -page 70
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Invisible
Savvy
"So fast, he thought. So fast things change. When he’d gone to sleep he had satisfaction and in just a moment it was all different." -page 78
Crenshaw
The Crossover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
"I think how useful a cloak that made me invisible would be right now. If I had one, I'd throw it over my head and run out the door and across the parking lot and the street" -page 23
Crenshaw
Savvy
Rules
Hummingbird
"People snatched it from the shelves like a new kind of candy. The first thousand copies sold out quickly." -page 27
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Chasing Vermeer
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
The Leaf Detective
"He was only nineteen when he graduated. His uncle warned him that he was too young to become a doctor." -page 17
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Crossover
The Leaf Detective
"Far as I'm concerned, taking a bath is sort of like drowning, with soap."-page 113
Crenshaw
The BFG
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
"Fragile is what I'll always be. I get that. But I am a thousand other things, too. I'm whole constellations of wonders and weirdness and hope." -page 11
Savvy
Invisible
Hummingbird
May B
"We all need a little help sometimes. One day, you'll be able to help someone, you'll see." -page 152
Crenshaw
Savvy
Invisible
The Crossover
"Even without the sun, they're able to wake themselves up at the right time, for something important."-page 14
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Crenshaw
Hatchet
"At the back there is a huge garden and there are no soldiers in there at all. There is a very high wall with spikes on it around the garden to stop people climbing in."-page 115
The BFG
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Chasing Vermeer
"Churlish: Having a bad temper and being difficult to work with." -page 142
The Crossover
Hatchet
Invisible
Chasing Vermeer
"I was literally the only one in my town like myself." - page 7
Invisible
May B
The Leaf Detective
Hummingbird
"Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them." -page 208
Crenshaw
Invisible
The Crossover
Savvy
“If you could have a superpower, would you rather fly or be invisible?." -page 3
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza
Crenshaw
Invisible
"‘The human beans is making rules to suit themselves" -page 79
The BFG
Crenshaw
Hatchet
The Crossover
“Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.” -page 0
Rules
Savvy
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
"THE MEMORY was like a knife cutting into him. Slicing deep into him with hate." -page 29
The Crossover
The BFG
Hatchet
The Mostly True Stories of Homer P. Figg
"Well, you think you understand, but if it's true, we should do something to help them." -page 69
Invisible
Savvy
May B
Chasing Vermeer
"He was alone." -page 12
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Hatchet
Rules
Savvy
“Looking closer can make something beautiful.” -page 19
Savvy
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
Rules
“To scientists it was a new frontier-mysterious and unexplored.”- page 16
Rules
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza
The Leaf Detective
“Rule number one for scientists is this: There is always a logical explanation for things. I just had to figure out what it was.” -page 19
Crenshaw
Rules
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Leaf Detective
"Only the pilot can see out the front window......" -page 2
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Crenshaw
Hatchet
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"Do your best." I nod. "But I know my best isn't always good enough." - page 24
Invisible
Hummingbird
Hatchet
May B
"Tell him the truth," he says. "The truth shall set thee free."-page 53
The Crossover
The BFG
Crenshaw
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"Senseless or not, I will do what I have to, what is right, this moment, for me." -page 191
Hummingbird
Hatchet
May B.
Rules
“You never can
tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen” -page 228
Rules
The Crossover
Savvy
Hummingbird
"The noise awakened him. It was a low sound, a low roaring sound that came from wind. His eyes snapped open not because it was loud but because it was new." -page 148
Hatchet
Crenshaw
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The Crossover
"She heard her mom say something in an impatient tone and then the words "letter" and "forgotten" and the quick, harsh sounds of tearing paper."-page 22
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Rules
Savvy
Chasing Vermeer
"Bringing fortune to our house! Making Fruitless Mountain bloom! You'realways wishing to do impossible things! Stop believing stories and stop wasting your time." -page 24, 25
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
"His first job was in Manchester, England. The people who worked in the factories there were poor and often sick." -page 19
The Leaf Detective
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Chasing Vermeer
"...I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside." -page 198
Savvy
Crenshaw
Invisible
May B
“What bothered me most, though, was that I couldn't fix anything. I couldn't control anything. It was like driving a bumper car without a steering wheel. I kept getting slammed, and I just had to sit there and hold on tight.” -page 188
The Crossover
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
Savvy
"But you all lied and broke the rules. You still need to be punished."-page 183
Hummingbird
Savvy
Hatchet
Invisible
"As we rushed out into the spring night, the air was
crisp and cool, laced with the smell of diesel fumes and
chicken fingers." -page 177
Hatchet
Crenshaw
Invisible
Savvy
"He's here, but he's not. He's always smiling. His eyes get all spacey whenever she's around, and sometimes when she's not." -page 91
Chasing Vermeer
Invisible
The Crossover
Hatchet
"He sits up on the bed, holds his chest like he's pledging allegiance."-page 165
Invisible
The Crossover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Crenshaw
"Fragile is a falling star." - page 10
Rules
Chasing Vermeer
Hummingbird
How the Mountain Meets the Moon
"At first I didn't like the name because so many kids made fun of me on the school bus, at lunch, in the bathroom." - page 8
Invisible
The Crossover
Crenshaw
Chasing Vermeer
"Scientists can’t afford to be optimists or pessimists. They just observe the world and see what is." -page 40
Chasing Vermeer
The Leaf Detective
Crenshaw
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"... All silly and gone. No bows, no spears, or fish or berries, it was all silly anyway, all just a game. He could do a day, but not forever...." -page 114
May B
The BFG
Hatchet
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
“Looking at my family, all there together, I felt like a relative from out of town. Like I belonged to them, but not as much as they belonged to each other." -page 35
Crenshaw
Rules
Invisible
The Crossover
"Humans make happy and upset sounds and faces too." -page 9
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"Don't gobblefunk around with words." -page 28
The Crossover
The Mostly True Story of Homer P. Figg
Chasing Vermeer
The BFG
"Humans do the same thing when they make plans." -page 1
Hummingbird
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
When the Mountain Meets the Moon
Chasing Vermeer
"Sometimes life is gravy. Sometimes it's gravel. We get through all of it together." -page 320
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
Invisible
Rules
"Momma didn’t realize that I’d already taken on the
world and won." -page 339
Rules
Hummingbird
Savvy
Crenshaw
"”You are your most valuable asset. Don’t forget that." -page 48
The Crossover
Hatchet
Savvy
The BFG
“If I hear you say anything about me, I'll smash an apricot in your face.” -page 98
Crenshaw
Chasing Vermeer
Hatchet
Invisible
"I am not a mathematician - a + b seldon equals c. Pluses and minuses, we get along but we are not close. I am no Pythagoras." -page 43
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
Invisible
The Crossover
"Pull, aim, release, fire..". -page 10
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza
Hummingbird
Savvy
"I is hungry!... He grinned, showing massive square teeth. The teeth were very white and very square and they sat in his mouth like huge slices of white bread." -page 25
Hatchet
The BFG
May B
Hummingbird
"If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck." -page 38
The Crossover
Invisible
Hatchet
Savvy
"There's something pitiful about a man with a sack on his head. Knowing he can't see what's going to happen next, and how every little noise makes him flinch." -page 31
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The Crossover
Hatchet
The BFG
"Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again." -page 222
Rules
May B
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Crenshaw
"I can make awfully perfect mistakes." -page 310
May B
Hummingbird
The Crossover
Savvy
"Saying you'll do something means you have to do it – unless you have a very good excuse." -page 66
Rules
Crenshaw
Savvy
Hummingbird
"I suppose you're wondering what that letter was about." -page 180
Rules
Savvy
Hummingbird
Chasing Vermeer
"You are your most valuable asset. Don’t forget that." - page 48
The Crossover
Hatchet
May B
Invisible
"But tricks are for kids, I reply." -page 4
Savvy
The Crossover
Crenshaw
Invisible
"I'm just checking for hidden shelves. This building could be filled with secrets we haven't even imagined, you know?" -page 193
Chasing Vermeer
The Mostly True Stories of Homer P. Figg
Rules
Hatchet
"You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen." -page 302
Savvy
Invisble
The Crossover
May B
"And suddenly he bowls over, a look of horror on his face, and starts coughing while clutching his chest, only no sound comes out. I freeze." page 101
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
The Crossover
Chasing Vermeer
"I'm changing. Change is coming, and it's me." -page 17
Savvy
May B
Hummingbird
Rules
""The key to survival, he had learned, was to not think too far ahead." -page 157
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The BFG
The Crossover
Hatchet
"If only all the ideas in the world could be found in one place." -page 16
Savvy
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Rules
Hatchet
"But perhaps more than his body was the change in his mind, or in the way he was—was becoming. I am not the same, he thought. I see, I hear differently. He did not know when the change started, but it was there" -page 101
Hatchet
Crenshaw
The Crossover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"Life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but it's how you handle them that defines who you are." -page 162
The Crossover
May B
Rules
Invisible
"Sometimes it’s the quiet ones that are the most dangerous." -page 89
Invisible
Crenshaw
Savvy
May B
"Tipping point: The point when an object shifts from one position into a new, entirely different one." -page 118
Hatchet
The Crossover
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
"Turn on and off a bunch of switches in your body at the molecular level, changing the way your cells work."-page 15
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Hummingbird
How the Mountain Meets the Moon
"I walk over to look closer at his fingers. Bent nearly double, his fingers touch the keys much like he touches his cards, one at a time. It's a simple song, spare and haunting." -page 172
Savvy
Rules
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
"I couldn’t imagine how often in my life it might be so
very important to spell arma-double L-dillo." -page 16
Hummingbird
May B
Savvy
Hatchet
"Hates the sky, because it didn't matter if the sky is sunny and blue, it's bound to rain someday."-page 3
The BFG
May B.
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
“And we aren't always just what you see on the surface either.”-page 193
Invisible
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Hummingbird
Rules
"Lose half the water in your body, and shrink up like a raisin."-page 15
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Hummingbird
Rules
"People only see what they want to see most of the time." -page 84
The Crossover
Hummingbird
May B
Invisible
"I've always been interested. And to know how things can go from bad to worse in an instant. How you can lose everything." -page 146
May B
Hatchet
Savvy
Invisible
"Except I know one thing. I can't do nothing. Nothing is not an option." -page 65
Crenshaw
The BFG
Savvy
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"If you want to change the subject, confuse the other person by going off on a wild, chatty detour." -page 140
Crenshaw
Rules
Savvy
Hummingbird
"The witching hour...was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves." -page 10
Crenshaw
Savvy
The BFG
Rules
"I'm pretty sure my heart exploded into confetti bursts of sunshine." -page 164
Hummingbird
The BFG
Savvy
Rules
"He had become more thoughtful as well, and from that time on he would think slowly about something before speaking." -page 187
Crenshaw
The Crossover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
"..she couldn't help thinking how wonderful it would be to have the mountain blooming with fruit and flowers, bringing richness to their needy village." -page 8
Invisible
May B
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Savvy
"Then he saw Napoleon lead his troops through the city. The soldiers marched lockstep in long, orderly rows"-page 18
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Chasing Vermeer
The Leaf Detective
“I like not knowing everything. It makes things more interesting.” -page 211
Crenshaw
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Right Word: Roget...
“I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." -page 190
Savvy
Crenshaw
Rules
Hummingbird
"Fortune was not a house full of gold and jade, but something much more." -page 259
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Hatchet
“Facts are so much better than stories. You can’t see a story. You can’t hold it in your hand and measure it. You can’t hold a manatee in your hand either." -page 9
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Chasing Vermeer
The Leaf Detective
Crenshaw
"Telling the truth don't come easy to me, but I will try - even if old Truth ain't nearly as useful as a fib sometimes."-page 1
Rules
Crenshaw
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The BFG
"I’m alive, he thought. I’m alive. It could have been different. There could have been death. I could have been done." -page 40
Most True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Savvy
Hatchet
May B
"Life is messy. It’s complicated. It would be nice if life were always like this. He drew an imaginary line that kept going up and up." -page 236
Invisible
Crenshaw
Hatchet
The Crossover
"Every good country home needs a place to sit and think and watch the clouds roll by." -page 99
Hummingbird
Savvy
May B
Crenshaw
"But this did not change him at all. Instead, he went right back to his desk and made new lists..." -page 28
Chasing Vermeer
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
"TREASURE. Unbelievable riches. He could not believe the contents of the survival pack. " - page 178
Invisible
Hatchet
Savvy
The Crossover
"We live in complete darkness so time is confusing." -page 2
Invisible
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Hatchet
"And we aren't always just what you see on the surface either." -page 193
Rules
The Crossover
Invisible
Hatchet
“And right then I knew, the way you know that it’s going to rain long before the first drop splatters on your nose, that something was about to change.” -page 93
The Leaf Detective
Hummingbird
Savvy
Crenshaw
"Animals need to be able to recognize each other's moods to get along, and just survive."-page 9
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"Communication is important-they need to work together and cooperate to stay safe." -page 1
Crenshaw
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Hummingbird
"She grew up near the beach and spent her days studying everything she found there." -page 2
The Leaf Detective
Chasing Vermeer
Hummingbird
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"If there is a secret to happiness, I should have it."
— Chapter 15, Page 82
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Savvy
Hatchet
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
"You are a miracle because you exist." -page 24
May B
Savvy
Hummingbird
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
“The facts. You need to tell the truth, my friend. -page 79
Chasing Vermeer
The Leaf Detective
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P Figg
Crenshaw
“Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!” -page 10
Crenshaw
Rules
Savvy
Hummingbird
"When I try to remember my whole entire life, it feels like a Lego project where you’re missing some of the important pieces...You do the best you can to put things together, but you know it’s not quite like the picture on the box." -p 30
Rules
The Crossover
Savvy
Crenshaw
"Listening to that song always lifted my spirits and I wished I had it with me as I sat on the bus." -page 128
Savvy
Crenshaw
Rules
The Crossover
"I have a friend, he thought—I have a friend now. A hungry friend, but a good one. I have a friend named fire." -page 89
Hummingbird
Hatchet
Savvy
The Crossover
"Sometimes it's hard for me to remember that older people had whole lives before I met them. That they were kids who had big adventures—and deep, special wishes—they were desperate to see come true." -page 174
Chasing Vermeer
Hummingbird
Savvy
Crenshaw
"If there's one thing I've got a knack for - a true talent even - that's being late."-page 145
Rules
Hummingbird
Savvy
The Crossover
"That's like a human running from Los Angeles to Chicago in less than two days."-page 4
The Crossover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hummingbird
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"As though the situation wasn't bad enough for us already, things went even more catawampus and cockeyed once we got to that teeny-tiny town." -page 94
Savvy
Invisible
Hatchet
Hummingbird
"...the cornfields look like ragged green patches on a big old quilt. Train tracks are like stitches in the ground, mending the world together." -page 162
May B.
The BFG
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
"Many hands make light work" -page 56
Savvy
May B.
Invisible
Hatchet
"The last of the meat ran out long ago."-page 98
The BFG
Crenshaw
May B.
Hatchet
“Facts are important to scientists, which is what I want to be when I grow up. Nature facts are my favorite kind. Especially the ones that make people say No way.” -page 8
Crenshaw
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Chasing Vermeer
The Leaf Detective
“I was amazed how easy the lying came. It was like turning on a faucet. The words just rushed right out. I felt guilty for not feeling guilty. I mean, I’d shoplifted. I’d taken something that didn’t belong to me." -page 172
Savvy
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
“It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.” -page 193
Savvy
Crenshaw
Rules
Hummingbird
"I couldn't fathom it myself, but I guessed that happy endings came in all shapes and sizes." -page 242
The Crossover
Hatchet
Rules
Savvy
"Dreams is not like human beans or animals. They has no brains. They is made of zozimus." -page 128
May B
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
The BFG
“Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.” -page 97
Savvy
Rules
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
"What's wrong? You never made a mistake before?" -page 96
Invisible
Hatchet
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
"Low tide smells mud-black and tangy, but high tide smells clean and salty. -page 13
Hummingbird
Rules
Savvy
Crenshaw
“Did you know some frogs can leap so far it’d be like a human jumping the length of a football field? They’re amazing jumpers.” -page 78
Crenshaw
Hatchet
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"Noises swarmed around her—munching … crunching … chewing …" -page 22
May B.
The Leaf Detective
Savvy
Hummingbird
"I think we can all do a little more for others, but you have a good heart." -page 150
Crenshaw
Invisible
The Crossover
Savvy
“Leaving out isn’t the same as lying.” -page 81
Crenshaw
Hummingbrd
Rules
Savvy
"Now, let's get an early bird special to celebrate!" -page 155
Rules
Hummingbird
Hatchet
Invisible
“It tastes like the sun if the sun were made of magic. "page 5
Chasing Vermeer
Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza
Hatchet
"Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time." -page 41
May B.
The BFG
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
"Seconds passed, seconds that became all of his life, and he began to know what he was seeing, began to understand what he saw and that was worse, so much worse that he wanted to make his mind freeze again." -page 12
Crenshaw
Hatchet
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
The Crossover
"Events that were purely accidental were beginning to feel like they fit together, but not in a way he understood or even knew how to think about. " -page 98
Hatchet
May B
Chasing Vermeer
Savvy
"Mostly when I pray, I picture God holding my heart up very gently to his ear, like it's one of those big, fancy seashells with an ocean sound inside it. I've got a thousand tiny oceans inside me. " -page 11
Hummingbird
May B
When the Mountain Meets the Moon
Savvy
"...when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work." -page 79
Hatchet
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
May B
Invisible
"No toys in the fish tank." -page 0
Invisible
Rules
Crenshaw
May B
"What they were doing was real exploration, real thinking—not just finding out about what a bunch of dead, famous grown-ups believed." -page 7
Rules
Hummingbird
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
"We don't understand why we're here. Are we in trouble or something?" -page 6
Invisible
Chasing Vermeer
Hatchet
Crenshaw
"Rage, you poor creature! Rage at the tragedy of your existence! Rage and squeal against the indignity of your fetid prison!" -page 131
The BFG
Hummingbird
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
“I wasn’t lying, exactly. It was more that I left out certain facts and focused on others. I didn’t want to do it, of course. I liked facts." -page 208
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Invisible
Crenshaw
Savvy
"He had done it. That’s all he could think now. He had done it." -page 176
Hatchet
The Crossover
Crenshaw
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"Sometimes you need to take a step back and appreciate how far you've come. Celebrate your achievements, no matter how small they may seem." -page 193
Invisible
May B
The Crossover
Hatchet
“We get born, and
sometime later we die. And in between, we’re happy
and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we
sleep and we hurt like everyone else.” -pages 97, 98
Hummingbird
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Savvy
Hatchet
"...has turned into something even dumber than a frog. More like a skinny worm about to be breakfast for a really smart robin." -page 97
Crenshaw
Hatchet
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"What does it matter when I make mistakes? They don't make me who I am." -page 161
Rules
May B
Invisible
The Crossover
"I cook some, collect fuel, mend, tote water, hoe, wash, pretty braid or not."-page 4
The BFG
May B.
Rules
Savvy
"The hole is big as my head." -page 193
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hatchet
May B.
"Sometimes I can change how I feel about something by drawing it. Drawing makes me find the curves, the shadows, the ins and outs, and the beautiful parts." -page 19
Savvy
Hummingbird
Rules
Crenshaw
"Impossible? Don't you see? Even fates written in the Book of Fortunes can be changed. How can anything be impossible?" — page 67
Chasing Vermeer
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Crossover
Hatchet
"And I won't have to limit using my crimson and indigo pencils anymore. Now I have brand new long ones." -page 105
Hummingbird
Rules
Savvy
Crenshaw
"Because it turns out forever is like the mall-right around the corner." -page 204
Invisible
Hatchet
The Crossover
May B
"If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.” -page 38
Rules
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
Savvy
“The trick is that you take so long to hit the target, you forget about being hungry. For a while, anyway.” -page 15
Crenshaw
May B.
Hatchet
Invisible
"I was a criminal. But I told myself that in nature it’s survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten. Kill or be killed. They say those things a lot in nature films."-page 172
Savvy
Chasing Vermeer
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Crenshaw
"Sometimes it's the things that aren't said that kill you." -page 156
Savvy
Rules
Invisible
The Crossover
"Speech Woman! Avenger of Adverbs! Protector of Pronouns! Champion of Chitchat!" -page 49
Savvy
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
Rules
"... I realize there's no shame in hoping for things that might seem out of reach." - page 224
May B.
Hummingbird
Rules
Hatchet
"Stories are lies, when you get right down to it. And I don’t like being lied to. I’ve never been much into make-believe stuff." -page 9
Crenshaw
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Chasing Vermeer
The Leaf Detective
"Though I move my orange pencil over a fresh page, I'm only making lines. Too-busy-to-talk lines. Leave-me-alone lines." -page 28
Rules
Hummingbird
Savvy
Crenshaw
"He was famous for changing identities and for charming his way in and out of impossible situations." -page 237
Crenshaw
Chasing Vermeer
May B
Savvy
“Just because other people think something, that doesn’t make it true.” -page 179
Savvy
Rules
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
"I found these times alone to be very strengthening, as they encouraged me to develop confidence in myself." - page 21
May B
Savvy
The Leaf Detective
Invisible
"The lists helped him remember his lessons." -page 9
Invisible
Hatchet
Rules
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
"We can't tell people about where we live, remember? It's a secret." -page 23
Chasing Vermeer
Rules
Invisible
Hummingbird
"Like there was some invisible stink-bubble force field keeping them away." -page 63
Invisible
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Chasing Vermeer
"He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now. " -page 114
Hatchet
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Crenshaw
The Crossover
"..Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." -page 36
Chasing Vermeer
Savvy
May B
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right." -page 34
Savvy
The BFG
Rules
Crenshaw
"... he joined science societies and attended lectures given by famous thinkers and inventors. Before long, he was asked to give lectures, too." -page 20
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
Chasing Vermeer
"I was frozen with fear." -page 12
The Crossover
Savvy
The Leaf Detective
Hatchet
"For the next three years, he worked on the book of word lists that he'd written as a young doctor. He made it larger, more organized, and easier to use." -page 25
Chasing Vermeer
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Leaf Detective
"I’d grown used to all the voices inside of
my head and knew which ones to pay attention to and
which ones to ignore." -page 339
The Crossover
May B
Invisible
Savvy
“The mall manager made us leave. I did not get the free basket with candy eggs or a photo with the fake rabbit…. That was the first time I realized people don’t always like to hear the truth.” -page 10
Savvy
Rules
The Crossover
Crenshaw
"And it’s better to have a box in a car than a box on a street. Those were just facts." -page 104
Savvy
Crenshaw
Invisible
Rules
"If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come." -page 255
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Crenshaw
Savvy
Hummingbird
"We had already been to the moon and back but nobody had been to the top of a tree." -page 5
Hummingbird
The Leaf Detective
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"Here are the facts. I am tired of not knowing what is going to happen. I am old enough to understand things. I hate living this way." -page 229
Chasing Vermeer
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Savvy
Crenshaw
“For example, if you drop a mostly full bottle of ketchup in the tub, it will not float. But it will turn the water an awesome color. ” -page 107
Rules
Crenshaw
The Crossover
Hatchet
"Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope." -page 116
Crenshaw
Hatchet
The BFG
Chasing Vermeer
"At that point he sat back on the beach and studied the problem again. Sense, he had to use his sense. That’s all it took to solve problems—just sense." -page 160
Invisible
May B
The Leaf Detective
Hatchet
"Dreams is very mystical things..." page 108
Invisible
The BFG
Crenshaw
May B
"I am afraid in the dark all alone I am afraid" -page 84
May B
Invisible
Savvy
Hatchet
"Swinging and twisting, she dangled like a worm on a hook." -page 12
The Leaf Detective
Hummingbird
Chasing Vermeer
Savvy
"I call dibs on this today! OK, I'm over here and I call dibs on this! Good morning, I call dibs on this part! I call dibs up here!"-page 14
The Crossover
Crenshaw
Savvy
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"Full of wrath, the tiger growled at his own reflection, thinking it was a black beast." -page 173
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Crenshaw
Hatchet
"And when he put them in long, neat rows, he felt as if the world itself clicked into order." -page 12"
Hatchet
The Leaf Detective
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Rules
"We found ourselves in a cramped storeroom that smelled like ketchup and pickles and mustard."-page 158
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Rules
Savvy
Invisible
"I hope for a hint of light reaching through the hole, a reminder of the world outside." -page 179
Rules
Hatchet
Hummingbird
May B.
""I wrote that word for a feeling, But a feeling isn't always drawable, so I drew the pond where I go swimming. There's a raft, and we dare each other to jump off and touch bottom." -page 117
Savvy
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Rules
"I congratulate you all on your pursuit of the truth ." page 111
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
Hatchet
Invisible
"His lies are as sweet as honey and twice as smooth." -page 112
The BFG
Crenshaw
Rules
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"..people sometimes twisted what was actually in front of them to fit what they thought should be there, never even realizing they were doing it." -page 45
Rules
May B
Chasing Vermeer
Savvy
"Think Fast Thoughts!" -page 16
Rules
Savvy
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Crossover
"These books helped people to speak and to write more politely." -page 24
The Leaf Detective
How the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
Rules
"Everything felt broken and hopeless. What if this
had all been for nothing?" -page 112
Hatchet
Crenshaw
Invisible
Savvy
“Most people say if you tell a wish it won't come true. But I don't think wishes work like that. I don't believe there's some bad-tempered wish-fairy with a clipboard, checking off whether or not you've told..." -page 190
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Savvy
Rules
" You want to focus on what matters, otherwise, you'll end up in a factory like me or doing construction like him." -page 59
Hatchet
Invisible
Rules
Crenshaw
"Some of his favorites were The Four Elements, Of the Weather, and In the Garden." -page 11
Rules
Savvy
Invisible
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
"From then on, I never looked back...or down." - page 14
Hatchet
Invisible
Hummingbird
The Leaf Detective
"ironic: Having a curious or humorous unexpected series of events marked by coincidence." -page 104
The Crossover
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Chasing Vermeer
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
“Just this once, let it be easy.” -page 61
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Rules
Savvy
"And when she shared the photo online, almost no one could see it." -page 10
May B
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
“It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.” -page 58
Savvy
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Crenshaw
Savvy
"It all depends on what we get interested in—or what gets interested in us" -page 6
Hatchet
Savvy
Crenshaw
Chasing Vermeer
"Estranged: The interruption of a bond, when one person becomes a stranger to someone who was close: a relative, friend, or loved one." -page 187
The Crossover
Hatchet
Crenshaw
Invisible
"Linnaeus put the names of animals and plants in categories, and that made nature much easier to study." -page 13
Chasing Vermeer
The Leaf Detective
"The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus"
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
“Look at that ridiculous tail. Humans laugh with their mouths, dogs with their tails. Either way, it makes for pointless mirth.” -page 65
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The BFG
Crenshaw
"We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows." - page 211
Hatchet
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Crenshaw
The Crossover
"Because I thought forever was like Mars-far away." -page 204
Crenshaw
May B
The Crossover
Hatchet
"I will find my future BFF, and I will prove to absolutely every soul in this place that I'm more than bones and wheels and breakable parts." -page 17-18
BFG
Hummingbird
May B
Savvy
"They wanted to cut them all down."-page 18
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The BFG
The Leaf Detective
"It pained me if I was ever called upon in class." -Page 6
Hummingbird
Invisible
The Leaf Detective
May B
"Perhaps worry wasn't quite the right word. What was the right word?"-page 15
Hatchet
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
May B.
Crenshaw
"I grasp handfuls of hair. Shove it into the stove, watch it curl, shrivel, and burn." -page 163
Hummingbird
Rules
May B.
Hatchet
"So many complicated words too easy to trip on. I kept my mouth closed, tried to keep my breathing calm." -page 153
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
Hummingbird
May B.
Rules
"Looking closer can make something beautiful." -page 19
Hummingbird
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Savvy
Rules
"I am unprepared for death. This is a game I cannot play. It has no rules, no referees. You cannot win." -page 227
Savvy
Hatchet
The Crossover
Hummingbird
"They can fly, but not very far and only a few seconds."-page 14
How the Mountain Meets the Moon
Chasing Vermeer
Hummingbird
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
"And something strange had happened. The thread — which was really now more like a thick silk rope — seemed to have divided itself into a long strange web, reinforced with bamboo stalks." -page 222
Invisible
Savvy
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Hatchet
"They placed themselves a far distance from the rice, yet still within sight, put out the fire, and pretended to go to sleep."-page 77
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Chasing Vermeer
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Invisible
"Boys with no self-control become men behind bars. , , , Boys with no discipline end up in prison." -page 138-140
Invisible
The Crossover
Chasing Vermeer
Hatchet
"Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope." -page 123
Crenshaw
Hatchet
The Crossover
Savvy
"You have to look underneath the words to figure out what he's trying to say. It helps if you know his conversation rules: Don't use two words when one will do.... " -page 38
Crenshaw
Savvy
Rules
Hummingbird
"Plunging forward, my chest and shoulders scream with the shock of cold. I go under, breaststroking, kicking hard, until my lungs ache and I can't stay under one second more." -page 137
Hummingbird
Hatchet
Crenshaw
Rules
“I wish I could change our fortune.”
— Page 12
The Mostly True Stories of Homer P. Figg
Crenshaw
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Hatchet
"He looked around and wished he had somebody to tell this thing, to show this thing he had done. But there was nobody." -page 90
Rules
Hatchet
Chasing Vermeer
Savvy
"All I knew
was that being different ran through our veins." -page 120
Savvy
May B.
Invisible
Hummingbird
"We are part of our ecosystem, not outside it." -page 3
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
"This was hunger that he knew would be there always, even when he had food—a hunger that made him look for things, see things. A hunger to make him hunt.." -page 110
Hatchet
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Invisible
Crenshaw
"It's like being on a rocket without the sparkles." -page 161
Hummingbird
Savvy
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The BFG
“Stories are not a waste of time.”
— Page 25
Savvy
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Invisible
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
“There had to be a logical explanation. There’s always a logical explanation. Meantime, I was going to enjoy the magic while I could.” -page 245
The Leaf Detective
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Crenshaw
“When you say something stupid, gloss over it with superfast talking and maybe no one’ll notice.” -page 73
Savvy
Crenshaw
Rules
Hummingbird
"He shook his head. More pain. That wasn’t something to think about."- page 36
Invisible
The BFG
Hatchet
The Crossover
"It was wind, wind like the sound of a train, with the low belly roar of a train. It was a tornado. That was it! The roar of a train meant bad wind and it was coming for him." -page 149
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Hatchet
Savvy
“If you want to get away with something, don’t announce it first.” -page 28
Savvy
Crenshaw
Hummingbird
Rules
"If everyone is quiet, nothing happens." -page 1
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Savvy
Crenshaw
Invisible
"The human bean has two legs and a vegetable has no legs at all." -page 28
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
The Crossover
The BFG
"That is the scrumdiddlyumptious snozzcumber." -page 59
The BFG
Crenshaw
Savvy
Rules
"Sometimes you need to take a risk and step outside your comfort zone. That's where true growth happens." -page 133
Rules
Invisible
The Crossover
Hatchet
"His thought was that most people bent over backward to fit everything that happened to them into something they could understand." -page 45
Chasing Vermeer
Hatchet
Invisible
Savvy
"Best kind of lie has some truth in it." -page 61
Hatchet
Crenshaw
The BFG
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"They leave their shoes on the ship." -page 2
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Hatchet
Chasing Vermeer
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
“Sometimes people don’t answer because they didn’t hear you. Other times it’s because they don’t want to hear you.” -page 12
Rules
Crenshaw
Savvy
Hummingbird
"We finish our posters, barely talking. Green ruins my fireworks. I trace the lines and bursts, wishing there were a way to go backward and make them what I wanted them to be." -page 161
Crehshaw
Hummingbird
Savvy
Rules
“She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are.” -page 225
Hummingbird
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Crenshaw
"Time was made for others, not for someone all alone." -page 135
May B
Hummingbird
Hatchet
Chasing Vermeer
"Never let anyone tell you what you can or cannot achieve. Believe in yourself and follow your dreams, no matter how impossible they may seem." -page 171
Invisible
May B
Savvy
The Crossover
“When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.” -page 136
Rules
Hummingbird
Crenshaw
Savvy
"I'd give anything to have him back, because the notion of being on my own scares me worse than spiders." -page 20
Crossover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The BFG
Hatchet
"A winning strategy is not about planning, he says. It's about quick responses to changing conditions." -page 56
Hatchet
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Chasing Vermeer
The Crossover
"If stories were true, I'd follow a bread-crumb path all the way home. But I have no heart for fairy tales anymore."- page 90
Crenshaw
Savvy
Rules
May B.
“Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.” -page 175
Savvy
Hummingbird
Rules
Crenshaw
"What could he do in the meantime? He could teach math, science, and French - he could tutor." -page 17
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus
The Leaf Detective
"It is essential for life on earth." -page 43
The Leaf Detective
Chasing Vermeer
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Hummingbird
“Don’t want to see any more . . . feel any more. Just let me
fade away . . . I’ve seen too much . . . too much!” -page 152
Chasing Vermeer
Savvy
Invisible
May B
"Looking wrong, he thought. I am looking wrong. More, more than that I am being wrong somehow—I am doing it the wrong way. Fine—sarcasm came into his thoughts—I know that, thank you. I know I’m doing it wrong. But what is right?" -page 136
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Crenshaw
Hatchet
Invisible
"IT IS THE PROFOUND CONVICTION OF MOST OF US THAT THERE NEVER HAS BEEN A SHOWER OF LIVING THINGS. BUT SOME OF US HAVE ... BEEN EDUCATED BY SURPRISES OUT OF MUCH THAT WE WERE 'ABSOLUTELY SURE' OF...." -page 44
Hummingbird
Rules
Chasing Vermeer
Savvy
"We is in Dream Country... This is where all dreams is beginning." -page 80
The BFG
Crenshaw
May B
The Crossover
"Understands what? That we're as different as they are? Is that supposed to make it okay?" -page 178
Crenshaw
Savvy
Hummngbird
Rules
“Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next." -page 68
The Crossover
Hatchet
Crenshaw
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
“...choosing words is harder than I thought.” -page 50
Crenshaw
Savvy
Hummingbird
Rules
His voice had an undertone of cruelty and greed, even while he was expressing his pleasure. I tried to protest but my still lips uttered no sound. Then I was rolled up and all sound and feeling disappeared." -page 54
Savvy
Hummingbird
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
May B
"It is reasonable to think it is unbreakable." -page 219
May B
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Crenshaw
Invisible
"Time had come, time that he measured but didn’t care about; time had come into his life and moved out and left him different." -page 117
Hatchet
Crenshaw
The Crossover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"Plus he has MJ sheets, pillowcases, slippers, socks, underwear, notebooks, pencils, cups, hats, wristbands, and sunglasses." - page 12
Invisible
Chasing Vermeer
Crenshaw
The Crossover
"When the pilot sees something they'd like to examine, they use the slurp gun." -page 2
The Leaf Detective
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Chasing Vermeer
Hatchet
"The heat drained her energy, and she drained her water bottles. THE CLIMB SEEMED NEVER ENDING." -page 30
May B.
The Leaf Detective
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Hummingbird
"I liked thinking that little gray bunny appeared in a man‘s hat. I liked believing it was magic.“ -page 213
The BFG
Savvy
Crenshaw
Rules
"All God's children are from somewhere. The precise location matters not."-page 44
The BFG
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Hummingbird
Savvy
""Why is it in fairy tales, wishes always backfire?" " -page 140
Crenshaw
Rules
Hummingbird
Savvy
"A flip of some giant coin and he was the loser. But there is a difference now, he thought—there really is a difference. I might be hit but I’m not done." -page 152
Hatchet
Chasing Vermeer
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The Crossover
"Nature is resilient." -page 13
The Leaf Detective
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Hummingbird
"As in: Every guy in the lunchroom is trying to flirt with the new girl because she's so pulchritudinous." -page 55
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The Crossover
Chasing Vermeer
Invisible
"She was at last able to see that her daughter's laughter and love could not be improved by having the finest clothes or jewels, that joy had been in her home like a gift waiting to be opened." -page 254
Hummingbird
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
May B.
Savvy
"When the world is black,I'm most alone, the silence thick around me." -page 101
Invisible
May B.
Hatchet
Crenshaw
“If there is a secret to happiness, I should have it.”
— Page 82
Savvy
Hatchet
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Mostly True Stories of Homer P. Figg
"THINGS TOO TERRIBLE TO WRITE, FOR FEAR THE PAGE WILL BURN. THINGS BEST FORGOT." -page 186
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Savvy
Rules
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
"Never underestimate the power of teamwork. When you work together, you can achieve great things." - page 121
Rules
The Crossover
Savvy
Hatchet
"When he climbs into bed, I hear the sound of ruffling paper. Then his night-light comes on and I don't hear anything else except Thanks." -page 184
Invisible
Savvy
Crenshaw
The Crossover