Should The Bridge To Terabithia Be Banned

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According to ALA Website a common reason for Children’s Books to be challenged or banned is the “unsuited/inappropriate” for age group. Bridge to Terabithia is a work of children's literature by Katherine Paterson. It was written by Paterson and published at the same year in 1977 by Thomas Crowell. While writing the novel Paterson took inspiration from a real event that occurred 1974 during when her son’s friend was struck by lightning. After only a year of being published the novel won the Newbery Medal. The novel tells the story of a fifth grader named Jesse Aarons, who becomes friends with his new neighbor Leslie Burke. Leslie is a smart, talented, outgoing tomboy from a wealthy family, and Jess from the beginning starts thinking highly