![]() ![]() When I read the book at 10 or 11, it was frightening and absorbing precisely because Leslie’s accident felt unexpected, random, senseless. Until the day the rope snaps and she falls to her death. 0:00 / 10:55 Bridge to Terabithia: Chapter 1 - Read Aloud Rachel Mattock 1. 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. In this poignant, beautifully rendered novel. “I was trying to make sense of a tragedy that made no sense,” Paterson says in this interview with Christianity Today. Safe until an unforeseen tragedy forces Jess to reign in Terabithia alone, and both worlds are forever changed. 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. This 10-day novel unit for Bridge to Terabithia can save you hours of prep for your literature circles or book clubs. ![]()
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