Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbit
139 Pages

Winnie Foster lives in a tiny town called Tree Gap. Her family owns a wooded area where no one else lives. Well at least no one thinks anyone lives there. One day Winnie decides to go exploring in the woods and she meets Jesse Tuck. Winnie asks him how old he is and he says 104 years old. Winnie is instantly curious about Jesse. Jesse, his brother, and his mother decide they should take Winnie back to their house to explain to her their story and to convince her not to tell anyone else about it. Winnie learns that the Tuck family had drank some water from a magical stream and that their age was basically frozen in time. They keep living but they do not get any older. A man in a yellow suit is passing by and hears this story. The man in the yellow suit goes and tells Winnie’s parents where she is. He says that if they give him the wooded area he will return their daughter safely. They agree. The man comes to the Tuck residence to try and get Winnie. The Tuck family knows that he knows their secret and they do not trust him. Mrs. Tuck shoots the man in the yellow suit. The town constable happens to be arriving at the exact time Mrs. Tuck shot the man. The constable arrests Mrs. Tuck. Winnie decides it is up to her to save Mrs. Tuck because it is her fault in the first place. In the mean time, Jesse tried to convince Winnie to drink from the stream when she was 17 so they could spend the rest of time together. Winnie does not end up drinking from the stream, but she does save Mrs. Tuck.

Personal Rating-4

It is hard to believe that anything like this could ever happen. The book was very good though. It has a lot of things in it such as love and friendship. People always wish they could live forever and this book gives a good explanation for why you would not want to live forever.