The Losers Club Quotes

“All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak Brian’s Hunt by Gary Paulsen Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis The Call of the Wild by Jack London The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Giver by Lois Lowry Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The High King (The Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Holes by Louis Sachar The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins I Am LeBron James by Grace Norwich I Am Stephen Curry by Jon Fishman Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson LeBron’s Dream Team: How Five Friends Made History by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger The Lightning Thief  (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) by Rick Riordan A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle Number the Stars by Lois Lowry The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton The River by Gary Paulsen The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury Star Wars Expanded Universe novels (written by many authors) Star Wars series (written by many authors) The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess (Dork Diaries) by Rachel Renée Russell Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“Alec had comfort books—stories so familiar that they made reading feel like coasting downhill on a bike, or water-skiing on a smooth lake.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“Books were so dependable—so orderly. Then he thought, And so totally unlike real life.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“like Kidnapped, and The Swiss Family Robinson, and the Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, and about twenty others.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“And it was the same with the Black Cauldron movie—the book was ten times better.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“Because books do that—they make us lose some ignorance, and lose some fear. And losing fear might mean losing some anger, too.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“Ray Bradbury”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“sunny”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“difference, and…and stuff.” Alec stopped talking. His hands were cold and clammy. He felt like he’d just said way, way too much about the stupid sign. Nina sat down kitty-corner from him, and Alec noticed that she looked almost the same as”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“instantly peeled back the wrapper and bit off half the granola bar,”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“In the school library there’s an old Book Week poster that says ‘Get Lost in a Book.’ Well, we do that. We lose ourselves in books for hours and hours—books about all kinds of people and tons of different places. Then we come back, and we bring things with us. When we get lost like that, I think we find all kinds of cool stuff.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“The whole book stays put, right there all the time, always the same, with the words perfectly lined up one after another, waiting.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“covering”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“Real life is so…messy.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“LeBron James”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“seized”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“But if the messiness makes me feel like this, then it’s worth it, right?”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“But only one thought came to him—This is better than the best book I’ve ever read!”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“please,”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“You must unlearn what you have learned.’ ” Another Star Wars quote.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club