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Natalie Babbitt
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Softcover
5 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches
139
0-374-48009-5
1985
9 - 12
3
$5.95
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Synopsis
Winnie Foster has the adventure of her 10-year-old life when she discovers Jesse Tuck at a mysterious spring.
Description
If you could, would you wish to live forever? The Tuck family has been blessed or doomed to living forever after drinking from a magic spring. Winnie Foster wanders upon Jesse Tuck at the spring and learns of its secret. To fully impress upon Winnie the curse of the spring, the Tucks kidnap Winnie. She comes to love this odd, old-but-young family. When a yellow-suited stranger shows up at the Tuck's door saying he now owns the magic spring, the Tucks decide upon desperate measures.
Why I chose this book
I selected this book because it made my imagination soar. It was fun to imagine a magic spring that to drink of it meant living forever.---a Brigadoon type book. On another level there was the unspoken message of what it might mean to live forever. As Tuck fiercely said to Winnie early in the story, "You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road. I want to grow again." Tuck Everlasting has a combination of rich imagery, humor, and philosophical thought that makes this book so interesting, a choice for my web offerings, and a 5th grade must-read.
What others said about this book
Jean Stafford of The New Yorker writes, "A fearsome and beautifully written book that can't be put down or forgotten."
