Title: Bridge to Terabithia
Author: Katherine Paterson
Publisher: Haper Enterainment
Date: 2006
Age Range: 4 - 5 grade
Summary: The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
Strengths:
The problems of the main characters are very realistic and children can identify with them. I like how Paterson used Terabithia as a way for the kids to imagine and escape from reality. I know when I was younger I would play just like (well maybe not that advance) with my friends.
Concerns:
Such a sad book. I'm not one for books about death, they have always put me in a bad depressing mood. It was kind of creepy that they were talking about death and dying only a few chapters ahead from the actual death. But it is a part of life that children should learn when they are ready.
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