Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
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Author: Natalie BabbittEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-21
ISBN: 0312369816
Number of pages: 144
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Square Fish
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Summary: 5 Stars
One thing to describe Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt is wonderful. I picked the word wonderful because of all the wonderful things that had happened in this book. Tuck Everlasting is about a girl, Winnie Foster, that feels that she is always being watched by one or more of her family members. One day, Winnie's day becomes a nightmare as she has been kidnapped by a strange family. They take her to a quiet place to talk about why she had been kidnapped not to see that someone is over hearing everything they are talking about special information about their life of being over a 100 years old. The stranger has been interested in this type of family since he was little by his grandmother's stories. This strange family took Winnie to their home to spend the night. Winnie thought they were bad people to start with but as the night grow older the thought of this family being bad guys disappeared from Winnie's mind.The stranger that over heard the secret of this family stole their horse and is at the door step. One of the family members opened the door and there he is. That stranger wants a bargain the spring that the strange family drank from which is the special secret. He wants to sell the spring for a high profit. But will the strange family keep him away from this spring of immortality? Or let him go his own way and sell the spring? That is for you to find out.
Summary of Tuck Everlasting
Doomed to-or blessed with-eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune.
Imagine coming upon a fountain of youth in a forest. To live forever--isn't that everyone's ideal? For the Tuck family, eternal life is a reality, but their reaction to their fate is surprising. Award winner Natalie Babbitt (Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious) outdoes herself in this sensitive, moving adventure in which 10-year-old Winnie Foster is kidnapped, finds herself helping a murderer out of jail, and is eventually offered the ultimate gift--but doesn't know whether to accept it. Babbitt asks profound questions about the meaning of life and death, and leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for the perfect cycle of nature. Intense and powerful, exciting and poignant, Tuck Everlasting will last forever--in the reader's imagination. An ALA Notable Book. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter
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