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Bridge to Terabithia
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Bridge to Terabithia

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Puffin Modern Classics - everyone’s favourite stories.

Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class, but when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Even though she runs faster than him, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay - she’s clever and funny and not a bit soppy. And it is Leslie who invents Terabithia, the secret country on an island across the creek where he can escape his troublesome family.

The only way to reach Terabithia is by rope-swing where Jess and Leslie become King and Queen, defeating giants, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against their enemies. They are invincible - until tragedy strikes. It is more dreadful than anything Jess had ever dreamed of, but as he struggles to cope with his grief and anger, he finds that his family value him more than he’d thought and that, still King, he could even save Terabithia for the future.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Country
United Kingdom
Date
19 August 2015
Pages
208
ISBN
9780141359786

Puffin Modern Classics - everyone’s favourite stories.

Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class, but when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Even though she runs faster than him, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay - she’s clever and funny and not a bit soppy. And it is Leslie who invents Terabithia, the secret country on an island across the creek where he can escape his troublesome family.

The only way to reach Terabithia is by rope-swing where Jess and Leslie become King and Queen, defeating giants, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against their enemies. They are invincible - until tragedy strikes. It is more dreadful than anything Jess had ever dreamed of, but as he struggles to cope with his grief and anger, he finds that his family value him more than he’d thought and that, still King, he could even save Terabithia for the future.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Country
United Kingdom
Date
19 August 2015
Pages
208
ISBN
9780141359786
 
Book Review

Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson

by Celeste Perry, Feb 2025

When I read Bridge to Terabithia as a child, it was a brilliant and heartbreaking coming-of-age tale filled to the brim with adventure. Revisiting it as an adult feels like utter magic; Katherine Paterson captures the inner workings of adolescents as though bottling sunshine. Captivating and moreish, I don’t think I could possibly write a review that does its prose justice.

Jess is lonely. As a young boy in a small country town, the boxes he’s being forced into are becoming more claustrophobic by the day. That is, until new girl Leslie turns up, demonstrating exactly how to break out of the boxes, seemingly effortlessly. Together, using their imaginations, they gain the power to create a world of their own as the one they’ve been given fails them.

Tackling complicated themes, Bridge to Terabithia teaches us about loss, the unexpected ways grief manifests, and how those it hurts the most to lose give us the strength to survive the loss. Brilliant, whimsical, poignant, and highly recommended for ages 10+.

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