Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

CD audiobook, 1996

Description

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.

Awards

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1978)

Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 1981)

Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — 1981)

Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1980)

Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-8 — 1982)

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William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1979-1980)

Newbery Medal (Medal Winner — 1978)

Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)

Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)

Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1983)

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1978)

Colorado Blue Spruce Award (Winner — 1986)

California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 1980)

Virginia Readers' Choice (Winner — Elementary — 1983)

Flicker Tale Award (Nominee — 1983)

Gouden Griffel (Zilveren — 1983)

ALA Most Frequently Challenged Books (1990-2000)

School Library Journal Top 100 Children's Novels, 2012 Poll (10)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999 (8)

School Library Journal Top 100 Children’s Novels, 2010 Poll (13)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 (9)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 (28)

The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians (38)

Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!) (Virginia)

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Media reviews

Children's Literature

Valerie O. Patterson (Children's Literature) Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr. practices all summer so that he can be the fastest runner in his rural Virginia fifth-grade class. Despite his practice, however, he loses the race on the first day of school to Leslie Burke, the new girl in school whose hippy

parents have moved from Washington, DC. Despite Jesse’s lost running dream, he becomes fast friends with Leslie. Together they build the imaginary kingdom of Terabitia in the woods. To Jesse, Leslie is “more than his friend. She was his other more exciting self--his way to Terabithia and all the worlds beyond.” When Jesse’s favorite teacher takes him to see the art museums in Washington one rainy day, he returns home to find his world permanently changed by tragedy--Leslie’s death. Despite his heartache, Jesse moves forward, a stronger and more whole individual for his friendship with Leslie. Written by the author for her then young son whose best friend was killed by lightning, this Newbery Medal winner moves the heart and spirit with its beautiful writing, wrenching honesty, and hopeful ending. 2005 (orig. 1977), HarperCollins, $5.99. Ages 9 to 12.

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