Bridge to Terabithia, a novel by Katherine Paterson

‘We need a place,’ she said, ‘just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it.’

It was the new girl, Leslie, who invented Terabithia – a secret country in the woods beyond the dry creek bed. Here Jess is a king – strong, unafraid, unbeatable – so that when something dreadful happens – more dreadful than Jess could ever have imagined – he is able to face grief and disaster, and even save his kingdom for the future.

It’s a little impossible here for boy (Jesse Aarons) can imagine something when someone or Leslie read and tell him a story. As I know, boys don’t imagine things like that. Monsters, kingdom. Jesse can feel what the story tells like which his teacher read about Leslie’s scuba diving composition. He felt drawn and can’t breathe. I think it’s because Jesse like drawing so his imaginations fly everywhere.

Many classics story are mentioned. Narnia, Moby Dick, Hamlet. But, that’s it. No fights, no magical creatures, no bad guys. No curiosity to continue the book. The mystified things only happen in Jesse’s and Leslie’s imagination. It’s just ordinary book for kids with some morals of the story.