My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, ’cause I’m just funny that way.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

fang will be the first to die

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.