Sentence Stalking in 5th Grade

• But as Mr. Canker said, there is a book about everything if you only know where to look, and one day he went to Todcaster Library and began to read. - Which Witch - Dylan Morris
• Two days went by before I actually learned what happened that night, because it was at supper on Friday that Aunt Millie said, "A fox got my turkey that was nesting by the Christmas tree." - The Midnight Fox - Carlos Javier Perez
• "The sea monster!" I shrieked. "The sea monster!" Would they believe me this time? - Deep Trouble - Luis Fernando de Santiago
• Then, blessedly, the skies would clear and his mood would lift, and he'd put to sea again in the Ida Penrose, leading his little fleet to the pearling grounds. - The Divine Wind - Catalina Scarone
• I sing, and the sun hears my song and answers. - The Listening Silence - Asne Andersen
• I hope you have a family business you can push him into when he leaves school because he sure as heck won't get a job anywhere else. - The BFG - Claire Griffiths
• Early evening is a time when animals visit streams or places where water seeps out of the ground. - Fur, Feathers, and Flippers - Daniella Sarmiento
• Just when you think everything is going swimmingly, somebody goes and throws a shark in the goldfish bowl! - Goodbye Grace? - Laura Rushton
• She darted away without waiting for an answer and dashed to the bus. A Ghost in the House - Salvador Alvarado
• But headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvelously exaggerated stature. - Boy - Mabel Garcia
• The dummy stared up at her, his painted eyes as dull and wide open. - Night of the Living Dummy - Antoine Aragon
• Her hands flew up and she tumbled back onto the floor. - Monster Blood - Ricardo Ramirez
• The plants appear in spring, when the winter - frozen seas break up, and ice is carried away by winds and currents. - Fur, Feathers, and Flippers - Sooji Kim
• It was reddish-brown and hung in curls like springs that touched her shoulder and bounced as she walked. - Ramona the Pest - Andrea Vela
• The Himalayas contain 100 times as much ice as the Alps and provide more than half of the drinking water for forty percent of the world's population, through seven Asian river systems that all originate on the same plateau. - an inconvenient truth - Daniel Escobar
• A committee picked a simple but elegant design by James Hoban, a young Irish American architect. - The White House - Alejandra Mercado