This week, my First Line Friday comes from The Castle School (For Troubled Girls) by Alyssa B. Sheinmel, a contemporary novel about a girl who is sent to a school for "troubled" girls after her parents realize that they aren't enough to help their child through the grief of losing a friend.
The first (few) lines are as follows:
"The first thing they tell me is that the school is called the Castle and the campus is called the Kingdom.
“Doesn’t that sound nice?” my mother says, her voice maddeningly upbeat.
I roll my eyes. No matter what they call it, my parents aren’t sending me to a fairy-tale charm school for aspiring princesses. Not when there are two enormous men waiting by our apartment’s front door to take me there."
I am loving this book, and I think that these few lines are a perfect set up for the rest of the novel. It introduces you to the protagonist's attitude about The Castle School and also introduces you to a little of the weird vibes surrounding the school in general.
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