The day is perfect-but while he is gone Leslie is killed, swinging into Terabithla on their old frayed rope.
Then one morning, with the creek they must swing over to reach Terabithia dangerously swollen by rain, and Jess torn between his fear of the maneuver and his reluctance to admit it, he is saved by an invitation to visit the National Gallery with his lovely music teacher. Indeed Leslie has brought enchantment into his life. but he teaches her compassion for a mean older girl at school.
She lends him her Narnia books and lectures him on endangered predators. about a gloomy prince of Denmark, or a crazy sea captain bent on killing a whale. On her lead they create Terabithia, a secret magic kingdom in the woods, and there in the castle stronghold she tells him wonderful stories. Soon Jess and Leslie, whose parents have moved from the suburbs because they're "reassessing their value structure," become close friends. Jess, from an uneducated family in rural Virginia, has been practicing all summer to become the fastest runner at school-a reputation more desirable than his present image as "that crazy little kid who draws all the time." But Jess is beaten in the first race of the fifth-grade year by a newcomer-who is also the first girl ever to invade the boys' part of the playground. Paterson, who has already earned regard with her historical fiction set in Japan, proves to be just as eloquent and assured when dealing with contemporary American children-and Americans of very different backgrounds at that.
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