Bridge to Terabithia (Ch. 1-3)

When you were the only boy smashed between four sisters, and the older two had despised you ever since you stopped letting them dress you up and wheel you around in their rusty old doll carriage... it was nice to have somebody who worshipped you. (Ch. 1, p. 2)

She looked as if her mouth was set to say no, but instead she said, "You shouldn't ought to beat me in the head," and went off obediently to fetch his T-shirt. (Ch. 1, p. 6)

He thought later how peculiar it was that here was probably the biggest thing in his life, and he had shrugged it off as nothing. (Ch. 1, p. 8)

May Belle jogged to the end of the row and picked up his T-shirt from where it had been discarded earlier. (Ch. 1, p. 8)

It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. (Ch. 2, p. 12)

...their hearts thumping with anticipation as they listened to the joyful pandemonium pouring out from the teachers' room... (Ch. 2, p. 13-14)

It wouldn't help to try to defend Miss Edmunds against their unjust and hypocritical attacks. (Ch. 2, p. 14)

Mrs. Myers handed out books almost as though she were President of the United States, dragging the distribution process out in senseless signings and ceremonies. (Ch. 3, p. 22)

It occurred to Jess that she, too, wished to postpone regular school as long as possible. (Ch. 3, p. 22)

The fifth-grade boys, bursting with new importance, ordered the fourth graders this way and that, while the smaller boys tried to include themselves without being conspicuous. (Ch. 3, p. 24)