Maureen Johnson

The light fell like rain in droplets that hung in the air

For anyone who has ever dreamed

of finding a body in the library

“Dolores,” the principal would say. “You can’t go around acting like you’re smarter than everyone else.”

“But I am,”

I believe learning is a game, a wonderful game.”

The rumor was that Ellingham followed one of his cats and had a stone path made along any route it preferred to take because he felt “cats know best.” The rumor wasn’t true, but Ellingham enjoyed it so much that there was another rumor that he started the first rumor himself.

curating her Pinterest boards of organizational techniques, girls with glasses, YA novels

Get the books right and the rest will follow.

Long tables were also featured in so many murder mysteries, when all the guests of the house were arranged, eyeing each other over their wineglasses, wondering who Lord Dudley was going to put into his will

Seriously, Nate. You have to like something. You can’t go around being miserable about everything.”

How are you so smart?” Stevie asked.

“I read a lot,”