The+Bridge+to+Terebithia

**SUMMARY/REVIEW**
Follow Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke into their magical forest kingdom as Katherine Paterson leads the reader through an adventure of friendship and imagination. Jess and Leslie are neighbors who quickly become great friends. As the kids get to know one another, they learn that together they make a great team. Jess and Leslie put their heads together and create an imaginary kingdom called Terabithia, an announce themselves King and Queen. Travel with them a rope swing away to their kingdom and learn more about their friendship, adventure, and heartache. (1)

**AUTHOR BIO**
Katherine Paterson was born in China on October 31, 1932. She is an American author who writes children's novels. Patterson's first language was Chinese, however she learned English and overcame language barriers when she attended and graduated from King College in Tennessee in 1954. She finished her first novel in 1966, and was not published until 1976. Patterson is most widely known for //Bridge to Terabithia// but she has written many other works. (2) Author Website: [|www.terabithia.com]

**OTHER CHILDREN'S LITERATURE**
//Bread and Roses, Too; Come Sing, Jimmy Jo; The Day of the Pelican; Flip-Flop Girl; The Great Gilly Hopkins; Jacob I Have Loved; Jip, His Story; Lyddie; The Master Puppeteer; Of Nightengales That Weep; Park's Quest; Preacher's Boy; Rebel's of the Heavenly Kingdom; The Same Stuff as Stars; Sign of the Chrysanthemum// (3)

**AWARDS**
//The Master Puppeteer//, National Book Award 1976, the Edgar Allen Poe Special Award; //The Great Gilly Hopkins//, National Book Award 1979; //Bridge to Terabithia,// Newberry Medal 1977, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award 1978; //Jacob Have I Loved//, Newberry Medal 1981; //Jip, His Story//, Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction 1996; the Hans Christian Anderson Medal 1998; the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2006 (3)

**HISTORICAL CONTEXT**
Patterson wrote Bridge to Terebithia after a real event that occurred in August 1974 when a neighborhood child was struck by lightening and killed. The novel's content has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the [|American Library Association] list of the [|100 Most Frequently Challenged Books] of 1990-2000 at number eight. (4)

Coming of Age, Sibling Rivalry, Death, Acceptance, Personal Strength
 * THEMES**

**CITATIONS**
1) Paterson, Katherine, and Donna Diamond. //Bridge to Terabithia.// New York: Crowell, 1977. Print. 2) [] 3) [] 4) []