Bridge+to+Terabithia

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Below, you may post chapter summaries for extra credit.

Chapter 1

Chapter 1.Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr:

Everything starts with an eleven-year-old boy named Jess Aarons which was living in a farm with his 4 sisters and parent. After many days, the school started, he had an objective, be the best runner in the third, fourth and his grade. Almost all days have races that are organized by people in the school among all three grades, and now that is having this, Jess could have a chance to win. His very confident that he will pass by the entire student but he was nervous too. One day, he went in the morning run in the cow pasture a enormous place that makes everyone tired after practicing. He comes back home and her mom call him to breakfast but he isn’t their so she called... called and called but nothing. When we comes mom starts complaining the he ran too long so she order him to milk the cow after finishing eating. Jess has four siblings, Ellie (the oldest) and Brenda (the second oldest), Joyce Ann and May Belle is six-year-old sister, the admires one from Jess because they get along better. Just the two older had the same think; they like coasting money from mother for go shopping. At the end, Jess receive a notice of a new family is moving into the ``old Perkins place`` next Jess family in a farm but Jess doesn’t seems anxious. Milena Farber.G9-Alpha.

Chapter 2

Jess finishes the chores that his mom said so after he do dinner for the littles sisters and after a while we is alone we goes to have some fun in drawing. Drawing was Jess passion and his best talent which noone aprexiates except the music teacher Miss Edmunds, his love. He loves showing his pictures for her because she cares, and his father star fighting with Jess because he thinks drawing is for girls. At home Jess is called to milk the cow again and again because Elie and Brenda was at the mall with mom and dad in work. When dad come from job he only say hi to the May Beell and Joy Ann and ask jess: `` mighty late with the milking, arent you son?``. As usual, he run every morning and he stops and start hearing someone say. He met Leslie Burke, the new neighbor. MILENA FARBER -G9 ALPHA

Chapter 3

In the first day of school Jess goes to his class and met the same girl he met one day after, Leslie. Eventually their were both in the same class.Jess was nervous about the race in the recess. So everyone was at the recess, the boys and Leslie. She ask to run too, the boys seemed :`` what is shedoing her?`` so jess said: hey boys she only running, she could not win.Jess was really confident she will lose and he will win but no. SHE WON!.MILENA FARBER G9 ALPHA

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It was the first week of school, Jess seems boring, Leslie had fun at the recess, winning all races. At th end of the week, there wasn't more races becouse boys were down(sad, mad, brave, furious..) about loosing it from a girl. Friday as always, Miss Edmunds were at school. At music class they were singing low at the start but at the end was to loud and all the school could hear them. Leslie and Jess were together at the bus, so Jess discovered all about Leslie's life and about his parrents that were hook on money, that was the reason that they moved. At Miss Meyers class, Leslie wrote about scuba diving and after afirmed that in her house threre aren't any TV. Jess and Leslie created a "magic castle" called Terabithia.======

**Jessica Cohen - G9 Alpha**
Chapter 5

One day on the bus, May Belle go across the bus to say to a friends of her that her father gave twinkies. Suddenly, Janice Avery get May Belle's Twinkies at lunchtime and start eating it. May Belle was very nervous so she runs screaming to Jess, demanding that he could do something bad to Janice. Jess was scarry because Janice is a lot bigger than he, but May Belle could`nt stop insisting. Leslie tries to solve this problem and tells May Belle that she and Jess will find a way of getting back at Janice but maybe the principal would kick Jess out of the school if get Jess having a enourmous fight with a girl.

During Jess and Leslie time in Terabithia, they come up with a job. To make sure May belle stops iritating they would write a love letter to Janice but from Willard Hughes. Willard is the boy every girl in the seventh grade has a paixon. The letter says that Willard is in love with Janice and he wants to walk her home from school the next day. The next day in school Jess put into Janice table this letter. Janice falls for it, so she misses the bus the next day, insatisfely Willard doesnt show up. Jess feels a bad for her, but he thing they could not have done anything else. Next day, Janice is furious, and May Belle is thrilled to know that Jess made for her, because Jess didnt said for her. MILENA FARBER- ALPHA

Chapter 6

Celebration of Christmas was coming but Jess cannot figure out what to get for Leslie. He thought in Leslie house the money was a tightt, and if he could give money to her, he needed to give to all the member of his family, and he has no way of getting a hold of any other money. He think: Does Leslie will not care even if he does not get her anything? his aswer was no, but it is important to him to be able to give her something. One day he is on the bus, with this problem in his mind, he couldnt stop thinking about it.Suddently, he sees a sign of advertising about giving free puppies being given away. NOW!! HIS PROBLEM WAS ALMOST SOLVED, BUT HE NEED TO GO THE PUPPY. Leslie is in LOVE with the puppy after Jess gives. She names it Prince Terrien, making it a prince of Terabithia. This puppy behavior soon after some days chages into bad behaviors Jess recive a present, she gives him an art set, with twenty-four colors and papers.In the morning Jess exchanges gifts with his family. His parents gave him a electric race-car set for him, something his dad clearly chosse with an effort to try to make Jess happy with something to much special. But this present does not work properly, so father is becamed tense. Jess starts being sad so he runs out of the house into the milking, joning Leslie and Prince Terrien. And he said: "it felt like Christmas again`` almost crying.. MILENA FARBER - G9 ALPHA

Chapter 7 Mr burke starts reparing the new home and Leslie help him, so she spends alot of time together with ther father. She starts becoming thrilled because while she spends alot of time with her dad, she would know him better.Leslie told to jess this. But while she renovate the home Jess is alone, lonely and jealous like a miserable boy. His feeling says he was abandonaded and he cant understand the relationship between leslie and her dad because its different from his own dad. Leslie dad always ask them to call him Bill. Until Leslie notice that Jess could participate of reparing the house because he was very good at fixing and horrible at writting.while jess help leslie parent insiste they call dad as Bill and mom as Judy.The title came because of the idea of coloring the wall of the living room in gold to make it feel they were in a castle or something like that. In the school, leslie comes out of the bathroom and she sees Janice avery crying because she have been beten by her father. But leslie ask, what is the problem? Janice say she told her 2 best friends and the spell it on the hole school.Jess ask leslie to help so she help her at night May bell says she followed leslie until terabithia.. Jeess get uneasy because shes only six year old girl.-- MILENA FARBER -G9-ALPHA

Chapter 8 Easter is coming up, and Jess family is starting to prepare. His family only goes to church on Easter, and when they do it is an event. Brenda and Ellie in particular get the opportunity to show off in new clothes. However, Jess's dad gets laid off just before Easter, and this means to Ellie and Brenda is that there will be no new clothes. Jess tells Leslie that they go to church on Easter, and Leslie surprises him by asking if she can go with them. She has never been to church, she says, and she wonders what it is all about. He succeeds in persuading his mother to let Lesley come with them. She finds the Jesus story to be beautiful, like something out of a book. Jess tells her, "it's because we're all vile sinners that God made Jesus die." Leslie does not believe this, and May Belle is horrified, telling Leslie she is going to go to hell if she doesn't believe the Bible. Jessica Cohen - G9 Alpha

Chapter 9

It was a rany day and the friends decited to go to terabithia, leslie agress.there they found out that the greek was swollen so jess was nervous but leslie encourage him to go. Leslie got her boot and raincoat and umbrella. She said for jess stop in his house to get the boot but he didnt have. So leslie diceded to get bills boot for jess to use but when they went their, they met judy and ask what was going on and they didnt aswerd so she ask if they want lunch and jess said they could get by himself. Jess goes to terabithia less and less because he was afraid of the greek getting enormous, but he cant tell to leslie because he fears make him hard. Suddenly on terabithis leslie discoves and announce that is no rain in the kingdom but can have evil spirits inside. To make sure they go to the grove of spirits and they pray. But jess didnt went because of the fears ... At night jess was wake up feeling the creek was to much higher.--MILENA FARBER-G9-ALPHA

Chapter 10 While jess is out miliking with miss bessie, may belle come runing towrds him to say jess receives a call. He takes the phone and says hello, now the pasion was to much higher becaus it was miss edmunds. So they started talking and she ask if jess would like to go to washington for the day to see the national gallery and she want to know if he want to go with her.. That momente jess was confused because either he needed to talk to mom and maybe she would say no but he ask mom .. Soon he was with my edmunds .. They have a very good day together .jess is like a particularly fan by three-dimensional decipitation of a buffalo hunt.. After seeying the art gallery miss edmunda buys a lunch which make him uncomfortable..because it seems she knew he does not have mnoney.. After a while she ask him ice creams and he said yes.. He thank alot miss edmunds because of the amazing day they have together. When he enteres in the kitchen, he knew something was wrong. All the family member were staring at ghim with a big silence. Suddenly her mom break down and he dont unterstand with until brenda says:your girlfriend is dead. MILENA FARBER-G9 ALPHA

Chapter 11 Jess father explain how she died: Leslie has trued to swing into Terabithia but the rope broke so she hit herself of something as she falls. But Jess insist that this didnt ocured, he scream : YOUR LYING DAD!!!!at the moment he sees May Belle that is looking terrified so he trys to acalm her because May Belle is remembering that Leslie as no christian so she could go to hell but Jess says no and go out of the house..To keep leslie from being dead he starts running but his dad went with a truck to pick him to go back home. At home he goes directly to the bed. At middle of the night he wakes up and says: she cant be dead. But he goes asleep thinking of the next day to tell Leslie about his day with Ms Edmunds. At morning, everything seem confused, he forgot milking the cow , he went see and he saw his dad milking the cow. Mom made pakakes( something she havent done for him). He was eating eith Brenda that was calm ans suddenly said : if jimmy dicks died, i would not be able to eat a bite. Mom said shuuuut up brenda and jess wasnt understandina what was going on.. Dad comes and talk to jess that we was going to pay respect so jess went too.. But he ask what girl? And dad explains again that Leslie died. Jess get his jacket and went with dad to the the Burke house. MILENA FARBER-G9-ALPHA

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Chapter 13

Below, you may post descriptions of the main characters of the novel, for extra credit.

-**Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr.** - Jess is the main character and protagonist of the novel. He is a fifth-grader in that live in a farm. Lonely and lost, because he lives with Elie, Brenda, Joy Ann and May Belle with parentes. In school Jess dont have friends until apper Leslie. Jess love drawing and his talent as a artist in excellent.


 * Leslie Burke** - Leslie is the new next-door neighbor and best friend from Jess. She is intelligent and imaginative, proving she could have an idea to build a fantasyland, Terabithia. Her family is affluent and well educated


 * May Belle Aarons** - Jess's little sister. May Belle is the most sister that is closer to him than any other member of their family. She is six years of and she is very lost, She doesnt have friends or siblings close enough in age to play with so Jess is the only person she could ask for, but he hates playing Barbie with her. She tries to push herself in about with Jess and Leslie being boy and girlfriends but they do not like.

**Ellie** - Jess's oldest sister. Ellie continually annoys Jess. Ellie like going shopping and cost money.

**Brenda** - Jess's second-oldest sister. With Ellie, she anooy Jess too. She is immature of irritating everyone.

Joy Ann- is the baby. The most who cares about her in the family is dad.


 * Miss Edmunds** - The music teacher at the school. Jess loves her. For him she is like a creature from another world. Miss Edmunds is a beautiful woman with a beautiful smile for all the students, but especially for Jess. She encourages Jess artistic talent, she is one of the two people in the world that appreciat it, including Leslie. She gives hippie classes.

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Jesse Oliver Aarons: he wants to make friends at his school but a lot of people makes fun of him, he has nobody to play at his neighborhood until a girl named Leslie Burke moves to his town and start living near his house , she wants to be Jesse's friend but at the beginning of the novel he thinks that she's strange by the way that she dress herself and more. It's very important to him to win the school's running race because he wants to be cool and make friends so he praticed every morning getting better and better. He has four sisters, Brenda, Ellie, May Belle and Joyce Ann. May Belle loves to play with him and keeps following him everywhere he goes, Brenda and Ellie loves picking on him and Joyce Ann is the youngest one. His parents always pays more attention to Brenda and Ellie giving Jesse work to do everyday like feeding the cow.

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Leslie Burke : she just moved on town and she's trying to make friends, she is different from the other girl's from her and Jesse's school because of her clothes and what she likes to do, at the beginning of the novel she tries to be friend with Jesse but he didn't liked her after her winning the running race that was very important to him. Being different from the other girls made them make fun of her, for example when she said at the class she couldn't do the homework because she didn't had any television at her house. She has a strong imagination and will help Jesse fill the magic at the Bride to Terabithia. Her parents are very smart and Jesse is afraid of her dad ( Mr. Burke).

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Janice Avery: everyone's afraid of her. She loves picking on and stealing May Belle's cakes, and beats who sits at her bus seat. Suddenly the whole school discovers the humor that her father beats her, spilled by her friends and she starts to cry at the bathroom until Leslie comes and start to help her. We start to notice that she treat other's bad because she was insecure and afraid that someone would pick on her.

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Mr. Aarons: he's Jesse father and always give him work everyday showing no affection, but something happens at the novel that makes him show his love for Jesse more than ever!

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Brenda and Ellie Aarons: they're Jesse oldest sisters and how I said previously they love picking on him. Another thing that they love to do it's go shopping for school supplies.

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