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Hello there folks, this is MJ Munoz, author, artist, analyzer, coming to you to tell you about the next book I'm going to read.

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This is MJ's next read. It's going to be the novel Bridge to Terebrith.

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The Bridge to Terebrith is a children's novel written by Katherine Patterson about two children named Leslie and Jesse who created, who create a magical forest

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kingdom in their imaginations. The book was originally published in 1977 by Thomas Crowell and in 1978 it won the Newbery Medal.

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Patterson drew inspiration for the novel from a real event that occurred in August 1974. I'll leave it at that.

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And yes, so this is Bridge to Terebrithia. There was apparently a 1980 something film made and there was a 2000, by PBS, oh I see, and then there was a 2007 Disney slash Walden Media feature film

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which is where I actually originally heard of this story and then I realized it was a great classic middle grade fiction novel so I read it for

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Fortress Fiction to see what I think of the book and I want to know what you think of the book too. Read it and let's talk about it.