![]() ![]() This novel, perhaps more than any other, greatly influenced the development of my own early writing style and literary voice. Review: I first read Bridge to Terabithia sometime in middle school, and remember being profoundly moved by the story. ![]() ![]() Safe until an unforeseen tragedy forces Jess to reign in Terabithia alone, and both worlds are forever changed.” Here, Leslie and Jess rule supreme among the oaks and evergreens, safe from the bullies and ridicule of the mundane world. The friendship between the two grows as Jess guides the city girl through the pitfalls of life in their small, rural town, and Leslie draws him into the world of imagination-a world of magic and ceremony called Terabithia. Then, unexpectedly, Jess finds himself sticking up for Leslie, for the girls who breaks rules and wins races. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn’t even know enough to stay on the girls’ side of the playground. “How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page? ‘I just can’t get the poetry of the trees,’ he said.”īook Jacket Synopsis: “All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year’s first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. ![]()
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