That’s all. Just let me know if
Leslie is still alive at the end of the movie, or if she dies,like in the book.
Please.
Thanks.
She dies…same as the book.
Hooray!
I really hated that book, and I think if I went to the movie I would be cheering for her death.
[bored voice]“He dies, she dies…everybody dies.”[/bored]
Sounds reasonable to me.
Your spoiler-tag stuff shows on mouseover :eek:
Okay then, Michaela can go see it this Monday.
Sorry about the mouse-over thing. Shoulda told me when there was still time to edit it.
What about the movie itself? Good? Meh? Suckage?
When was the book popular? I’ve never heard of it, and both I and my kids are voracious readers. Can’t figure out how it slipped under our radar. Though there was some other wildly popular book that was made into a movie recently that we had the same problem with…never heard of it, either, and everyone acted like it was required reading in school.
I haven’t read the book, or seen the movie, but I know the spoiling in question- I will say that the author is on record as approving of the movie. Her son wrote & marketed the screenplay & looked over the shoulder of the movie-makers, and he’s also happy with the movie. However, they both disapprove of how it’s been advertised. There’s gonna be a lot of shell-shocked little kids out there.
Maybe the parents should take them to that sweet Dakota Fanning’s next movie instead! :eek: 
It was published in 1977, and won the '78 Newbery Award. It’s used in classrooms all over the country, but since the '90s at least has been on just about every banned book list there is. As I mentioned in another thread, it’s got it’s fair share of controversy, not the least of which is the thing mentioned in the OP. One of the main character’s parents are atheists, and the other one uses the name of the Lord in vain a LOT. It’s been attacked as promoting New Age religion and Satanism. And a kid has a crush on a teacher. :rolleyes:
So it might not have been on your kids’ reading lists, or even in their libraries, but it is a great book. It’s generally read around grade 6, but I would read it along with them, as it can be a hard book emotionally for many kids, and they might need your help processing their feelings around it. That thing in the OP doesn’t happen to some background character we hardly know like in Goblet of Fire, but to a main character we love a lot. (Well, except for panamajack, I guess.)
I can remember our Fifth Grade teacher reading it aloud to the class and just sobbing when . . . well, you know. She could barely get the words out, and the whole class was riveted by it (both her and the book). I remember it really well because the next book she read us was Where the Red Fern Grows, and the same thing happend and I thought “Geez, doesn’t she know any happy books?”
After my kid’s teacher followed up Where the Red Fern Grows with Sounder :smack: , I got him this book to read prominently and pointedly during Independent Reading.
The FUNNY thing is- the author Katherine Paterson is a pastor’s wife, had considered being a missionary, and regards the book as being quite Christian.
Interview with her on the book & the movie here-
Thanks for linking, FriarTed! That was a great article I would not have otherwise been aware of.
From the link in FriarTed’s post:
I think that is an amazing statement to come out of that interview. That is all.
-foxy
This just cracked me up when I clicked on your link. My husband is currently looking at me like I’m nuts. 
Surprisingly, it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great, either, and I could have done without all of the special effects (the ones they’re using to sell the movie in the ads), but it didn’t stray too far from the book as I assumed it would (based, again, on the movie ads).
Would that be Holes? Because I’m feeling just as out of the loop with Terebithia as I did with Holes. I’d never heard of either of them until the movies were made. As much time as my kids and I spent at the library and in bookstores in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, I thought we didn’t miss too much.
It’s neat though, finding a new, good book. 
Michaela brought that book home from the school library last year, and we read it together. We liked it a LOT.
Thanks for the fix, Frank.
You’re quite welcome! I thought you’d enjoy it.