She was his other, more exciting self his way to Terabithia and all the worlds beyond. For the first time in his life he got up every morning with something to look forward to. When I read the book at 10 or 11, it was frightening and absorbing precisely because Leslie’s accident felt unexpected, random, senseless. 20 of the best book quotes from Bridge to Terabithia. Until the day the rope snaps and she falls to her death. Over a fall and winter, they ride the bus home from school together (sharing a seat in spite of catcalls from schoolmates), dump their backpacks at the edge of the road, and run across an empty field to the edge of a creek bed, where “someone long forgotten had hung a rope.” They use the rope to swing across the gully into Terabithia, a wooded glade that Leslie makes magic. In the book, a girl named Leslie Burke moves in next door to a chore-ridden farm boy, Jess Aarons, and imagines for him a kingdom she names Terabithia. “I was trying to make sense of a tragedy that made no sense,” Paterson says in this interview with Christianity Today. It is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Katherine Paterson. It was written by Katherine Paterson and was published in 1977 by Thomas Crowell. Bridge to Terabithia is a 2007 American fantasy drama film directed by Gábor Csupó and written by David L. Bridge to Terabithia is a work of children's literature about two lonely children who create a magical forest kingdom in their imaginations. Katherine Paterson wrote the 1977 children’s classic Bridge to Terabithia after her son David’s best friend, Lisa Hill, died at age 8 after being struck by lightning. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson.
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