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Leslie Burke
Jess’s younger sister. A six-year-old who’s unusually precocious and perceptive for her age, May Belle is Jess’s favorite sibling. She looks up to him and admires his resilience as a runner. May Belle often does Jess favors around the house, helping him with his chores when his older sisters, Brenda and Ellie, would never even stop to consider such a request. May Belle is sweet, naïve, generous, and curious. She constantly longs to tag along and play with Jess and Leslie—but because the two of them usually want to be alone in Terabithia, they come up with ways of distracting and placating May Belle. At the same time, they are fiercely defensive of May Belle—when she’s bullied at school by Janice Avery, they scheme to come up with a way to get Janice back on May Belle’s behalf. At the end of the novel, after Leslie’s death, Jess builds a bridge to Terabithia to prevent an accident like Leslie’s from hurting anyone ever again—and welcomes May Belle to Terabithia as its new queen, demonstrating his desire to continue building his relationship with May Belle even in the face of his grief.
May Belle Aarons Quotes in Bridge to Terabithia
The Bridge to Terabithia quotes below are all either spoken by May Belle Aarons or refer to May Belle Aarons . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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“Daddy!” May Belle screamed with delight and started running for the road. Jess watched his dad stop the truck, lean over to unlatch the door, so May Belle could climb in. He turned away. Durn lucky kid. She could run after him and grab him and kiss him. It made Jess ache inside…
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Chapter 3
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On the bus that afternoon [Jess] sat down beside May Belle. It was the only way he could make sure that he wouldn’t have Leslie plunking herself down beside him. Lord, the girl had no notion of what you did and didn’t do.
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Chapter 13
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Jess raced to the sound of May Belle’s cry. She had gotten halfway across on the tree bridge and now stood there grabbing the upper branches, terrified to move either forward or backward.
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When [Jess] finished, he put flowers in [May Belle’s] hair and led her across the bridge—the great bridge into Terabithia—which might look to someone with no magic in him like a few planks across a nearly dry gully.
“Shhh,” he said. “Look.”
“Where?”
“Can’t you see ‘um?” he whispered. “All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you. […] There’s a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arriving today might be the queen they’ve been waiting for.”
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May Belle Aarons Quotes in Bridge to Terabithia
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Chapter 2
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“Daddy!” May Belle screamed with delight and started running for the road. Jess watched his dad stop the truck, lean over to unlatch the door, so May Belle could climb in. He turned away. Durn lucky kid. She could run after him and grab him and kiss him. It made Jess ache inside…
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Chapter 3
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On the bus that afternoon [Jess] sat down beside May Belle. It was the only way he could make sure that he wouldn’t have Leslie plunking herself down beside him. Lord, the girl had no notion of what you did and didn’t do.
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Chapter 13
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Jess raced to the sound of May Belle’s cry. She had gotten halfway across on the tree bridge and now stood there grabbing the upper branches, terrified to move either forward or backward.
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When [Jess] finished, he put flowers in [May Belle’s] hair and led her across the bridge—the great bridge into Terabithia—which might look to someone with no magic in him like a few planks across a nearly dry gully.
“Shhh,” he said. “Look.”
“Where?”
“Can’t you see ‘um?” he whispered. “All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you. […] There’s a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arriving today might be the queen they’ve been waiting for.”
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