Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia

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Book Information

Publication Date:October 21, 1977


Reading Level: Lexile Measure 810L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level T


Interest Level: Grades 4 - 8


Major Awards: 1978 Medal Winner


Number of Pages: 144 pages


Approximate Word Count: 30,450 words -- The average reader will spend 2 hours and 1 minutes reading Bridge to Terabithia at 250 words per minute.*


Audible Book Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins


Book Themes: Freindship, Family, Courage, Contrasting Regions: Lark Creek and Terabithia, Innocence, Transformation, Society and Class, Ambition


Genre: realistic fiction


Setting: a small town called Lark Creek in Virginia and Terabithia in the 1970s


Important Quote: It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.


First Line: Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity.


Point of View: Third Person (Limited Omniscient) through Jess's perspective


*Estimate from Reading Length

Vocabulary List

abruptly
absorbed
accusation
alcove
allotted
anticipation
anxiety
beseech
clamber
commend
complacent
composition
conceited
consolation
consolidated
conspicuous
conspiring
constricting
contempt
coward
cremated
crimson
deliberately
despise
discern
distribution
dregs
dumfounded
earnest
emphasis

exhilaration
exile
flounce
foundling
gallery
garish
genuine
gradually
grit
grudgingly
guardian
gully
hippie
horrid
humiliate
hypocritical
inherited
inquire
insufficient
leaden
leisurely
lumber
melodic
mournfully
muddled
nuisance
obliged
ominous/ominously
pandemonium
paralysis

parapet
piteously
procession
prospectors
protest
pudgy
puny
relentless/relentlessly
reluctant
repentance
repulsive
rumpus
scald
scrawny
shudder
sneer
solemn/solemnly
spectacle
speculation
squabble
stranded
stricken
stronghold
suppress
surplus
uncertainty
upheaval
vanquished
vigorously
vile

 

 

Links to Resources and Teaching Ideas

Bridge to Terabithia

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Bridge to Terabithia Anchor Chart

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