Bridge to Terabithia

“Queen? Who gets to be queen?”

“I’ll explain it when I finish, OK?”

And when he finished, he put flowers in her hair and led her across the bridge—the great bridge into Terabithia—which might look to someone with no magic in him like a few planks across a nearly dry gully.

“Shhh,” he said. “Look.”

“Where?”

“Can’t you see ’um?” he whispered. “All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you.”

“Me?”

“Shhh, yes. There’s a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arriving today might be the queen they’ve been waiting for.”

About the Author

KATHERINE PATERSON was born in China, where she spent part of her childhood. After her education in China and the American South, she spent four years in Japan, the setting for her first three novels. Ms. Paterson has received numerous awards for her writing, including National Book Awards for THE MASTER PUPPETEER and THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS as well as Newbery Medals for JACOB HAVE I LOVED and BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA. Ms. Paterson lives with her husband in Vermont. They have four grown children.

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BOOKS BY

KATHERINE PATERSON

Angels and Other Strangers

Bridge to Terabithia

The Field of the Dogs

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Jacob Have I Loved

The King’s Equal

The Master Puppeteer

Of Nightingales That Weep

Preacher’s Boy

The Same Stuff as Stars

The Sign of the Chrysanthemum

Credits

Cover art © 2003 by Chris Sheban

Cover design by Karin Paprocki

Cover © 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

Copyright

BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA. Copyright © 1977 by Katherine Paterson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub © Edition SEPTEMBER 2009 ISBN: 9780061975165

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