Sentence Sneak Peek - Monument 14

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

The first sentence from each chapter of Monument 14, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)
* Book will be released June 5, 2012
* ARC read via Around The World ARC Tours

"YOUR MOTHER HOLLERS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MISS THE BUS."

"I WAS SLEEPY WAS THE THING."

"WHO LIKES PIZZA?"

"WE WERE SHAKEN AWAKE AROUND EIGHT."

"WHERE'S THE MAIN CONTROLS?"

"JAKE STRAINED TO KEEP ME PINNED."

"THE KIDS FELL ASLEEP, AFTER A WHILE."

"I WAS MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS, WRITING SOME STUFF DOWN, when Brayden ambled over and kicked the bean bag chair I was sitting on."

"THE NEXT MORNING THE LITTLE KIDS WOKE UP FIRST."

"AFTER DINNER, WHICH WE ATE WITH HARDLY ANY FUSS AND hardly any talking, really, Josie got up and put her plate in the trash."

"ONE WEEK BEFORE THE CEREMONY, I'D SAY I WOULD HAVE BEEN about as likely to read an original poem in front of my class-mates as I would have been to stand under Astrid's window and serenade her with a mariachi band."

"LUNCH: PIZZA."

"WHAT WAS I DREAMING OF?"

"I WOKE UP TO THE BEEP-BEEP-BEEP OF MY PANASONIC TRAVEL alarm clock."

"JOSIE AND BRAYDEN WORKED HARD ALL AFTERNOON AND BY the evening free play period, they had new sleeping quarters for us all."

"THE NEXT MORNING, I COULD HARDLY LOOK JAKE IN THE EYE."

"WE GATHERED IN THE KITCHEN."

"MOTHER JOSIE GOT ME CLEANED UP AND PUT ME TO BED."

"JOSIE TOLD US TO SUIT UP AND HEAD TO THE DUMP."

"WHEN MY ALARM CLOCK RANG AT SEVEN, SOMEHOW I FELT twice as bad as I had the day before."

"AT SEVEN A.M., I DIDN'T WAKE UP CHLOE."

"MY FIRST IMPRESSION WAS THAT MR. APPLETON WAS AN ex-army guy."

"NIKO AND JOSIE DISCUSSED WHAT TO DO WITH THE LITTLE KIDS while we all met with the grown-ups."

"AS WE NEARED THE KITCHEN, AND THE BUS, THE KIDS SWARMED out to greet us with a happy, fluffy Luna."

"I LET MAX HELP FIX THE BUS INSTEAD OF MAKING HIM COME do KP with me."

"AFTER BREAKFAST THE NEXT MORNING (CHLOE WAS MY HELPER and she said, "Just do whatever, Dean."

"BATISTE AND I REALLY WENT TO TOWN FOR THE FAREWELL dinner."

"EVERYTHING WAS QUIET AND DARK IN THE STORE WHEN WE woke to the sound of Luna barking and Astrid yelling her head off:
     "JAKENIKODEANBRAYDENGETOVERHERE!"

"THE LITTLE KIDS CAME SCREAMING OVER TO SEE WHAT HAD happened, and I grabbed Max and Ulysses and pushed them all back toward the Train."

"AS BONE WEARY AS WE ALL WERE, ONLY SAHALIA, JAKE, AND Alex could sleep."

"MR. APPLETON'S STILL BODY LAY ON ITS AIR MATTRESS HALFWAY down the Automotive aisle."

"NIKO, ALEX, AND JAKE WENT AWAY TO PREPARE JAKE FOR HIS trip."

"THE SOUND OF THE BUS RUMBLED THROUGH THE STORE."