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  • #1
    Gary D. Schmidt
    “Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”
    Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

  • #2
    “I'm rockin' in my school shoes ... because it's all good!”
    Pete the Cat

  • #3
    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #4
    Rick Riordan
    “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #6
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
    Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

  • #7
    Margaret Peterson Haddix
    “...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.”
    Margaret Peterson Haddix, Just Ella

  • #8
    Doreen Cronin
    “It is better to have bounced and bumped than never to have bounced at all. ”
    Doreen Cronin, Bounce

  • #9
    Ian Falconer
    “Reading never wears me out.”
    Ian Falconer, Olivia

  • #10
    Kate DiCamillo
    “There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
    Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie

  • #11
    Gordon Korman
    “The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.”
    Gordon Korman, No More Dead Dogs
    tags: dogs

  • #12
    Ridley Pearson
    “I... do... not... do... lightning.”
    Ridley Pearson, Disney at Dawn

  • #13
    Richard Peck
    “Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.”
    Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

  • #14
    Roald Dahl
    “The maid screamed.
    The Queen gasped.
    Sophie waved.”
    Roald Dahl, The BFG

  • #15
    Louis Sachar
    “Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.”
    Louis Sachar, Holes

  • #16
    Louis Sachar
    “I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”
    Louis Sachar

  • #17
    Gary Paulsen
    “Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

  • #18
    “Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”
    Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

  • #19
    Jack Gantos
    “Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.”
    Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt

  • #20
    Judy Blume
    “Snoring keeps the monsters away.”
    Judy Blume, Fudge-a-Mania

  • #21
    Beverly Cleary
    “Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.”
    Beverly Cleary, The Mouse and the Motorcycle

  • #22
    Brian Selznick
    “Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.”
    Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck

  • #24
    Trenton Lee Stewart
    “Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . .”
    “Dead mice?” Reynie suggested.
    “Perfect,” said Kate with an approving nod. “As quiet as dead mice.”
    Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma

  • #25
    Kathryn Lasky
    “A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.”
    Kathryn Lasky, The Capture

  • #26
    David Shannon
    “Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.”
    David Shannon, Alice the Fairy

  • #27
    Kevin Henkes
    “Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better”
    Kevin Henkes, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

  • #28
    Sharon M. Draper
    “Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.”
    Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind

  • #29
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #30
    Jessica Day George
    “How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia."
    "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.”
    Jessica Day George, Tuesdays at the Castle

  • #31
    P.D. Eastman
    “You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!”
    P.D. Eastman & Roy McKee, Are You My Mother?



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