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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
4.0
I put this book in my suitcase to read while on vacation in West Virginia and eastern Ohio. While traveling, I learned that a boy that attended school in WV with my son during elementary school had been killed by a truck while riding his bike. This obviously colored my reading of the book.
Paterson describes a budding friendship between two tweens as they learn to negotiate through conflicts with their peers. Instead of spending hours in front of a television, these two spend hours creating an imaginary kingdom in the woods behind their homes.
The boy Jess is first annoyed and then mesmerized by Leslie, the new girl in town. She's athletic, creative, intelligent and a nonconformist. She also likes to read and inspires him with tales from literature. Unfortunately, tragedy befalls one of them, and the last part of the novel shows a young person working to manage a major loss at a tender age.
Right before reading this book, I watched a youtube video dedicated to my son's classmate Kadian. It showed him practicing magic tricks inside a home, playing on a slide in a park, and performing ninja moves in the woods. He will be forever young, and his death will leave a tender wound in the hearts of many, particularly his best friend Milo, who played in the woods of West Virginia with Kadian as Jess and Leslie played together in this novel.
Paterson describes a budding friendship between two tweens as they learn to negotiate through conflicts with their peers. Instead of spending hours in front of a television, these two spend hours creating an imaginary kingdom in the woods behind their homes.
The boy Jess is first annoyed and then mesmerized by Leslie, the new girl in town. She's athletic, creative, intelligent and a nonconformist. She also likes to read and inspires him with tales from literature. Unfortunately, tragedy befalls one of them, and the last part of the novel shows a young person working to manage a major loss at a tender age.
Right before reading this book, I watched a youtube video dedicated to my son's classmate Kadian. It showed him practicing magic tricks inside a home, playing on a slide in a park, and performing ninja moves in the woods. He will be forever young, and his death will leave a tender wound in the hearts of many, particularly his best friend Milo, who played in the woods of West Virginia with Kadian as Jess and Leslie played together in this novel.