What is the rising action in Bridge to Terabithia?

I would say that the rising action point of the novel is
chapter 10. This is where Jesse thinks about his new found abilities to believe in
himself. It is also where he enjoys the guilty pleasure of going to an art gallery and
museum with his teacher, Miss Edmunds.

Jesse has grown so
much as an individual under Leslie's influence that we can see him existing as his own
person without her. It is a crushing blow at the end of the chapter when Leslie's death
is clumsily announced by Brenda-

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“Your girl friend's dead, and Momma thought you
was dead too.”