Bridge to Terebithia

Reader reviewed by Claire

I think this is a boring book. I hated it. Jess meets the new girl,Leslie, at school and they become friend. Leslie is teased a lot. They create a secret place in the forest by Jess's house. They swing over the creek on a rope to get to the secret place they call Terabithia.

Reader reviewed by Jessie

I loved this book. But then, right as it was all going good they go and kill a main character to the plot. MY FAVORITE PERSON!!! So... the book sucks. While it ends on a happier note they still killed Leslie! I think the author was just tired of writing the story and wanted something dramatic to happen. So she killed her. I will never read this book again.

Reader reviewed by Amanda

I read this book a long time ago and it was very, very boring and stupid. The story was about a boy named Jessie and a girl named Leslie. Leslie is the new girl in town and odd to normal people's eyes. Jessie is dazed that she doesn't own a television set. But, the two become good friends and build a little land in the woods by the river. I believe that they build a treehouse or shed or something. Being bored out of my mind and hating this novel with a passion, I decided to imagine it as a doghouse that has one of those little "FIDO" signs on it. Anyway, if I remember correctly, Jessie has a crush on his teacher and goes to a museum with her, leaving Leslie alone in the Terebithia land (they built). She drowns in the river.


Bridge to Terebithia is the most horrifically boring book I've ever read. I hope everyone reading this must restrain from the pain of reading it in school. How could Bridge to Terebithia win one of the Newberies? I don't think it was deserved.


I didn't like this book because of the stupid things that the kids did. Jessie liked the teacher. The land of Terebithia...Drowning in the river....Please don't make me stand this!

Reader reviewed by Leslie

This book stunk like POO

Reader reviewed by Chris Ely

This is one of the most STUPIDEST books I ever read! Here is the plot: It's right after the Vietnam war. This farmboy named Jessie wants to be the fastest kid in school. Then at resess of the first day of the new school year a new girl named Leslie goes over to the boys side of the playground and they race and to make a stupid story short, become freinds, makes up this magic land called teribithia that they reach by swinging an a rotting rope over a very dangerous river, Jessie goes on a trip to a meuseum with his hippie teacher, and when he comes back he learns Leslie drowned going to Teribithia. One of the corniest plots in a book. when the girl dies, the guy just goew into a daze untill he saves his sister from drowning, and then everything is okay. It has a weak plot, the charecters emotions are always happy, sad or mad. No jeulosy, anguish, emmberesment or any other emotions. Just happy sad and mad. The cherecters themselves are not written well, and basically it ! is just a dumb book. Don't read it. It will be a waste of time.