5/26/2023 0 Comments Terabithia book![]() After using a rope swing to cross a low creek on the edge of the woods near their homes, Leslie dubs the land on the other side the land of Terabithia and appoints herself and Jess its queen and king. As an easy intimacy develops between them, they seek to build a place where they can be alone and hidden away from the rest of the world. At first, Jess sees Leslie as a threat-she beats him in a race he’s been training for all summer-but soon, he warms to her outgoing, carefree personality, and the two become fast friends. to spend some time in the country “reassessing their value structure.” Leslie is smart, precocious, athletic, and, most strikingly of all, doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her. ![]() She and her parents Bill and Judy (whom she calls by their first names) are successful writers who have decided to leave behind their comfortable, upper-middle-class lifestyle in Washington D.C. At the start of the novel, the spunky and tomboyish Leslie Burke is new to the town of Lark Creek, Virginia. ![]()
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