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I chose to read Bridge to Terabithia this summer because it sounded really good. And I was right!! I loved it. It had many types of courage but one in particular stood out to me. Intellectual/emotional. I’ll talk more about this later. Bridge To Terabithia was about a boy named Jess who is trying to be the fastest runner in fifth grade. But he gets beaten by a new girl named Leslie Burke and they become best friends and they invent a land called Terabithia. They have a good time until something terrible happens to Leslie. And Jess uses the courage she gives him to persevere. Now, earlier I said that the type of courage that stood out to me was intellectual/emotional. One part that definitely stood out to me was (as above) when Jess said

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