Well Begun is Half Done

World-famous librarian (how often do you read those words?) Nancy Pearl has posted some great reading suggestions for the younger set. To whet you appetite, she's chosen books with particularly engaging openings. Among my favorites:

• "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
• "I come from a family with a lot of dead people."
• "I have been accused of being anal retentive, an over-achiever, and a compulsive perfectionist, like those are bad things."
• "We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."

What are these from? Your choices are below, but they're not in order. Give it a guess.

• Each Little Bird That Sings
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• Millicent Min, Girl Genius
• Feed

The answers are here, along with exceprts, so you can keep on reading past the first sentences.--David E