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Summary: This book is great and you have to read it!
Review: I wish I could give this book neverending stars! I read this book in class as a trade book and it is great! I don't understand how people cannot like this book. Anyone reading this right now..... you have got to read this book! I loved it and I know that you will too if you try it. I promise you that you will be complimenting this book if you read it so please get in in the entertainment and READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!
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Summary: Full Of Wonder...
Review: ...I will never forget my 5th grade teacher reading this book to my class. Every day at the end of language arts the entire class would quite with anticipation as Ms. Kresky began a new chapter. I am now a 30 year old man, and from time to time, on a wet and raining day, my mind will drift back to the world that Jess and Leslie created.....
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Summary: One of the greatest books I've ever read.
Review: I'm sick of the people who yell and scream about this book. In essence, it's a wonderful story about two children growing up. It has been said that a great book, doesn't have to have the best grammer or words in it. Some authors are too pretensous. If you don't like the profainity, then don't read the book, But don't hinder those from reading it. I was a sixth grader once, and I loved this book. Thanks...
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Summary: This book helps.
Review: Even though the kids in the story are really young I read this story over and over in spring because it is beautiful.Anyone should read this because it is a classic example of true love and tragedy.
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Summary: Too much cursing for kids. Some witchcraft too!!
Review: There is overuse of the word "damn." Why are adjectives like this needed when there are others for kids? Kids learn enough bad things from the world around them. Why do we need to open them to it in books used by many schoolteachers? There are some witchcraft terms and ideas, although these could be construed as a child's imagination
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Summary: OK,I guess
Review: Well,if you're in 6th grade you probably cannot avoid this book.My reading teacher had us work with it a lot.This did make me understand the characters better,but my impression of the book remained average.I'm gonna give you both sides of Bridge to Terabithia.First the good. The characters are never sketchy,even supporting ones stand out wonderfully.There is a wonderful variety of literary techniques(similes,metaphors,irony,etc.)The language choice of verbs,adverbs,adjectives,etc,is also intellegent.The bad: The story does a bad job of getting much emotion out of me.Most of the people in my Reading class agree,they don't feel touched.The setting isn't exactly believable.Even in the 70's,that setting was not typical for a fifth grade boy.There's a high level of mild profanity,which was distracting to say the least.I'll play a Duke Nukem game if I wanna hear that but I don't want to hear it in a Newbery winning novel.The pictures suck.The quality of writing is quite shaky,that being the quality is bad in the first part and good in the second.Overall,I must say the weaknesses outweigh the strengths.Everyone HATED it(but of course,for my teacher I had to pretend It was great)
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Summary: Shocking in a very bad way!
Review: I wish I could give this book no stars! I was shocked at the profanity in God's name and even the profanity not in God's name since this is a fifth-graders book. The characters, especially Jesse's family, were so hateable I can't say I liked a single one. And the whole magical land thing, these kids should get lives. It was not realistic at all. Leslie died at the end of the book when she drowned in a stream during a storm. She would have to be really really really stupid to try and get to Teribithia that way during a storm. This book should be called "Bridge to Terrible-ia". I read this in fifth grade and I'll be sorry I did forever.
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Summary: Great Book "Bridge to Terabithia"
Review: Great book about a little boy and a girl moves in and they are best friends. Little boy's name is Jesse and the little girl's name is Leslie. Jesse has a crush on his one teacher. One day they go to a museium and when they were gone Leslie died. She drowned in the river going to an area of land they called Terabithia. They took a rope over and the rope broke. Jesse couldn't believe it. He then bilt a bridge over to terabithia so no one would drown. He named his one younger sisters queen. (Leslie used to be). I loved this book and you would love it too.
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Summary: Great book for 6th graders exploring the Courage theme
Review: I have yet to meet a student who wasn't moved by Katherine Paterson's story of friendship and loss. Bridge to Terabithia introduces the reader to Jess Aarons, whose main goal in life is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. Jess is outdone by his new neighbor Leslie Burke, a faster runner who has move into the farmhouse next door. Despite this inauspicious beginning, Aaron and Jess soon become fast friends who build an imaginary kingdom together called Terabithia. As their friendship deepens, so does the reader's understanding of the book's complex themes: being true to oneself, coping with death, and finding the courage to build metaphorical bridges to others. As Paterson commented, "I discovered gradually and not without a little pain that you don't put together a bridge for a child. You become one--you lay yourself across the chasm." Teachers and curriculum directors in the Boston Public Schools have been so impressed by the powerful themes in Bridge to Terabithia that they have selected it as one of six core novels for sixth graders as part of the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum. The other five novels are: Taking Sides, Number the Stars, Maniac Magee, So Far from the Bamboo Grove, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. As with Bridge to Terabithia, each novel addresses the theme of courage--different types of courage, what it takes to act courageously, and how even small acts of courage can have enormous consequences in everyday life. As an Educational Consultant for the Courage Curriculum, I highly recommend Bridge to Terabithia as a book that will make a lasting impression on adolescent readers.
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Summary: The story that really teaches the meaning of the word friend
Review: I read this book in fifth grade and i just had to review it. It's about the true meaning of life and friendship. For me,I couldn't stop crying. I had to call my friend Molly to get a hold of myself!It 'a about a boy and a girl who create a secret place to go just for themselves, but when an awful tragic event occurs, Jess(boy) realizes what an influence/impact Leslie(girl) had on him.
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