Recommended by the NY Times as one of the best children's novel. Newberry Award winning "Bridge to Terabithia." I never read it as a kid... despite reading other Newberry books and I only know about this cuz of the movie that came out in the mid 2010's?
Reading this as a 40+ year old man... I kinda expected what was going to happen. But when it did happen, I was in shambles.
The forward is written by a woman in her 30's... and she had a completely different yet similar experience.
I don't know how I would've reacted had I read it as a young teen... the age group this book was intended for.
The best part of the book, oddly enough, wasn't the story itself. But the transcript of Katherine Paterson's Newberry Award winning speech. That.... is pure genius. Literature to the n-th degree. I salute you.
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