Ten top first lines in children's and teen books

Jon Walter is the author of the novel Close To The Wind.

One of his ten top first lines in children's and teen books, as shared at the Guardian:The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.This book has a fantastic opening as we follow the knife and the hand that holds it,