This beloved Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss.

Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the 5th grade. And he almost is, until the new lady in college, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie’s house, where they invent an enchanted property called Terabithia. One morning hours, Leslie would go to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy happens. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie offers given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief.

Bridge to Terabithia was also called an ALA Well known Children’s Publication and has turned into a touchstone of children’s books, as have a lot of Katherine Paterson’s other novels, like the Great Gilly Hopkins and Jacob Have I Loved.