First Line Answers

Here are the matched lines and covers. How did you do?  

If there is a first line that intrigues you, just click on the title and place a hold, you might find your next favorite read. Authors names are linked to their websites where you can get to know them.

 

“This is how you get your ass kicked.”  

 Fake ID, by Lamar Giles 

 “I’m clutching my tray with both hands, hoping that Beyoncé grants me the strength to make it to my usual lunch table without incidents.” 

 You Should See Me in a Crown, byLeah Johnson

 

“Yadriel wasn’t technically trespassing because he’d lived in the cemetery his whole life.”

Cemetery Boys, byAiden Thomas  

 

“Your brother doesn’t usually show up in your door, smelling all coppery, like blood.”  

Give Me Some Truth, by Eric Gansworth 

 

“It was a day of soil, sunlight, and smoke.”   

Patron Saints of Nothing, byRandy Riblay 

 

 “The desert sings of loss, always loss, and if you stand quiet with your eyes closed, it will grieve you too.”   

The Candle and the Flame, by Nafiza Azad   

"The first thing you learn when your dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say."  

The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness 

 

 

 “Later, they would blame what happened on the little wooden horses."

Wild Beauty, by Anna-Marie McLemore 

 

"His mother gave him a new pair of socks, a puffin to eat on the voyage and a kiss on the cheek."  

Wherethe World Ends, by GeraldineMcCaughrean

 

 "Hell was a party."  

Now I Rise, by Kiersten White 

"My face is mashed sideways against the trunk of a police cruiser when Kate dies for the third time." 

Opposite of Always, by Justin A. Reynolds 

 

 

 "I was raised to marry a monster."  

Cruel Beauty, by Rosamund Hodge 

 "For weeks after the day Riley Fraser disappeared--A cold Saturday in March that seemed ordinary in every other way--people thought he would come back."  

You Were Never Here, by Kathleen Peacock