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

“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

“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

“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

“Real life is so…messy.”
― 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

“Even though he knew this book as well as he knew his own backyard, he still loved every character, still loved every twist and turn of the plot, and after a day like this one, it felt amazingly wonderful to know exactly what was going to happen next.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

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