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* [[Cheerful Child]]: Leslie, especially in the most recent film.
* [[Coming of Age Story]]
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Jesse and Leslie both went barefoot (as is seen on the cover) partly because all the shoes they got were hand me downs and also it was not at all uncommon for kids in the 1970s to go barefoot, especially in the country.▼
* {{spoiler|[[Death by Newbery Medal]]}}: Probably the [[Trope Codifier]].
▲* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Jesse and Leslie both went barefoot (as is seen on the cover) partly because all the shoes they got were hand me downs and also it was not at all uncommon for kids in the 1970s to go barefoot, especially in the country.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: Gary Fulcher in the 2007 film, though he's more of a [[Jerk Jock]] than evil, he's highly antagonistic throughout.
* [[First Love]]: In this [[Tear Jerker]] of a novel, this trope is subtly implied with the friendship between Jess and his friend Leslie, a girl who introduces him to the titular Terabithia, and this variety of the "special, sweet, innocent" type of first love, on both Jess and Leslie's parts.
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* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: The real-life inspiration for Leslie was Katherine Paterson's son's childhood friend, Lisa Hill {{spoiler|who was killed by a lightning strike while climbing some rocks on a beach. The author originally intended to finish off Leslie the same way but ultimately changed it to a drowning because she felt it would be more believable. Probably right, but ironic.}}
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: In the film when Jess punches a kid taunting him, the teacher talks to him about {{spoiler|grieving the loss of a loved one}} when it appears he's about to be punished.
* [[The Seventies]]: The early post-[[Vietnam War]] era, referenced throughout the book but abandoned by the movie, which exacerbates the [[Fridge Logic]] of the lack of consequences for the teacher taking Jesse on ''that'' trip, as well as there ''being'' such a rural, [[Deep South]] area within commuting distance of [[Washington DC]].▼
* [[Snicket Warning Label]]
* [[Strange Girl]]: Leslie.
▲* [[The Seventies]]: The early post-[[Vietnam War]] era, referenced throughout the book but abandoned by the movie, which exacerbates the [[Fridge Logic]] of the lack of consequences for the teacher taking Jesse on ''that'' trip, as well as there ''being'' such a rural, [[Deep South]] area within commuting distance of [[Washington DC]].
** Go an hour or so west on I-66. You'll find it.
* {{spoiler|[[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: Boy howdy.}}
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