Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Bridge to Terabithia

a novel by Katherine Paterson

Lonely farm boy Jess Aarons and imaginative newcomer Leslie Burke become best friends and create Terabithia, a secret kingdom in the woods. Together they find courage, magic, and belonging — until a sudden tragedy changes Jess forever and teaches him how love can outlast loss. A moving Newbery Medal classic about friendship, imagination, and growing up. Each Part workbook has vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, and writing, plus history and culture background lessons.

Level 4Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based

Level 4 · Advanced ReadersUS Grades 4–6Lexile 700–1000LAR 4.3–5.7

📖 Get the right book: our workbooks follow the HarperCollins — Harper Trophy (paperback) edition — ISBN 9780064401845. All recommended editions →

Subject Personalities

The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.

PRIMARY LENS

🎨 Imagination & the Grieving Mind

Invented worlds, the power of art, and how children face fear and loss.

SUPPORTING

🌲 Rural Virginia Life

1970s farm childhood, creeks and woods — the real world Jess and Leslie cross out of.

SUPPORTING

📚 Books, Art & the Life of the Mind

Paracosms, the National Gallery, a house full of books — the arts that open Jess’s world.

Novel Study Workbooks

Choose a Part

Progress

PT…

Loading parts

Loading Part workbooks…

VocabularyComprehensionLiterary ElementsThink DeeperWriting

Please wait