1. Bridge to Terabithia By
Katherine Paterson

2. Meet the Author
Katherine Paterson was born in 1932 in China where her father was serving as a missionary. She also served as a missionary in Japan before becoming a children’s author. Ms. Paterson has won many awards for her books, including Newbery awards for Bridge to Terabithia in 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved in Other books she has written include The Master Puppeteer and The Great Gilly Hopkins.

3. Story Summary
Leslie is a newcomer to rural Virginia and Jesse’s life. Not sure about each other at first, they discover they have a lot in common and develop a rich friendship. Together Leslie and Jesse create Terabithia, their private kingdom where they are the rulers. This wonderful friendship is shattered when tragedy strikes. Jesse must go on and learn to cope with this traumatic loss.

4. A major theme of this book is friendship.
If you had a special secret, whom would you trust with it?
Do you now have or have you ever had a special friendship? How did you meet and become friends with this person?

5. Friendship Chains What makes a good friend?
Work with your partner to come up with qualities that you think make a good friend.
Write your responses on the friendship chains that you will create. (I will show you how to do this)
We will share these responses and display our friendship chains in the classroom.