Tuck Everlasting

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Summary: "Tuck Everlasting" By Natalie Babbitt
Review: I think that the book Tuck Everlasting written by Natalie Babbitt was pretty good. I like it because the text did a great job by telling you where you where. For example, in chapter 1 the text says's; "And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn." In this sentence you can picture this hot sun beating down on you and the grass being somewhat forlorn. This is an example of why I liked the book. One part I did not like in this book was in chapter 10; in this chapter they talk about how Jesse had a shotgun. I did not like this, because I do not like to hear about guns this was uncalled for in my union. I thought the book Tuck Everlasting was pretty good even though there were parts I did not like. Overall the good overruled the bad. So from me to you I say you read it. You will get a few good lessons out of it. When you read this book you should be open to all the adjectives Natalie Babbitt writes in the text of Tuck Everlasting. You may want to live forever now as a kid. When you read this book you may change your mind. There are a lot of things you would miss out on if you don't read this book.

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Summary: Good Book
Review: Tuck Everlasting was a pretty good book. I like how Natalie Babbitt makes things interesting like when Winnie was taking to the toad. I thought that was very creative. I also liked the idea of the spring. That has to be hard to think of. Another thing I liked was how she described Treegap in the first chapter. The first couple of chapters started off very boring. Then when you get into the book it gets very exciting. Especially when Winnie meets Jesse. You didn't what they were going to talk. Or if the Tucks were going to take her. The Tucks did take her. Mae, Miles,Jesse, and Angus Tuck told Winnie their secret. The Tucks live forever. The man in the yellow suit has been looking looking for the Tucks for a long time. He follows the Tucks and Winnie to the Tuck's house. He hears the secret. The man in the yellow suit steals the Tuck's fat horse and goes tells the Fosters where Winnie is. He makes a clear cut deal. If he tells the Fosters where Winnie is the Fosters have to give the man in the yellow suit some of thier land to build a house. So the man in the yellow suit and the constable went to go get Winnie Foster. When the constable and the man in the yellow got to the Tuck's house. Mae got a little out of hand and hit the man in the yellow suit with a gun. The Tucks did not want the man in the yellow suit to die because Mae would have to go to the gallows. The gallows is where you get hanged. The whole world would no the Tuck's secret. That they live forever. The constable reports to the Fosters that the man in the yellow suit has died and that Mae Tuck would be hanged. Mae gets put in jail. She was going to get hanged the next day. Miles is a carpenter so he knew how to get Mae out of jail. He does it by taking screws out of a window. Mae gets out and Winnie never sees the Tucks again. Later Angus Tuck, and Mae Tuck visit Treegap again. They find that the wood was destroyed and the spring. the only thing I didn't like about the book was about the man in the yellow suit. The text never gave any information on him. He just seemed like a oddball. All you knew was that he wore a yellow suit and he was a man. Tuck Everlasting is avery good book for ages nine and up.

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Summary: Ups and Downs about Tuck Everlasting
Review: I think this book is a pretty good book. It has a lot of details which help you picture what the characters look like. Sometimes it uses improper grammar so it is confusing. I recommend reading it for ages 8 and up or someone else to read it to ages 7 or down. "Tuck Everlasting" has an exciting theme but some parts slow down. This book has a little over one hundred pages. It comes back to a scene many years later and...
Just kidding! You will have to find out what happens for yourself.

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Summary: It's worth reading
Review: Tuck Everlasting is about a little girl named Winnie Foster who meets this family named the Tuck's. The strange part about the Tuck's is that they live forever. Winnie runs away from home to the woods where there she meets this 17 year old Tuck boy Jessie. Jessie is on his way along with his other brothers back to there parents house where they stop in every 80 years. Jessie feels bad for Winnie so he takes her back to his house where she eventually stays they for a couple weeks. But then this man in a yellow suit shows up at Winnie's house where he makes a deal with her dad that if he brought them back Winnie, her dad would give the man in the yellow suit his woods. Then a couple more events happen and eventually Winnie will die. The bttom line is this book is full of suspence and aventure and it's a book worth reading

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Summary: Tuck Everlasting
Review: Summary- Winnie Foster is a girl that is kept inside the gates of her house, she is not a loud to go outside of her fenced in yard. She finally gets the guts to leave and she goes out into the woods and meets this kid named Jesse Tuck she follows this kid back to his house and meets with his whole family they become friends and hang out almost everyday. Until Winnie's parents find out that shes been sneeking out and her parents tell the police. The police go to the Tuck's house and ask if Winnie had been there and they say that she wasn't so they leave. While Winnie was at the Tuck's house she had alot of fun more fun then she had ever had. There was a jailbreak, kiddnapping, and alot more.

Quotes from the book- "We thought for sure he'd broke his neck. But come to find out it didnt hurt him a bit."
"Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she descoverd the wings she'd always wished she had."

Describe the Characters-
Winnie Foster is a young girl that was kept inside of her home and not let out of her fenced in yard.
Mrs. Tuck is a homemaker and a caring mother.
Mr. Tuck is a typical father.
Miles Tuck is the older brother of Jesse Tuck.
Jesse Tuck is the younger brother of Miles, who starts to fall for Winnie.

Where is the story set?
The story is set in the 1870's in the woods of Tree Gap

What is the genre is it?
I think the genre is young adult/fiction/becoming of age.

A suggestion who would like the book and why?
I think that younger kids maybe in 4th, 5th or 6th grade would like it because the book is set at the age level.

Comments about the authors style or use of figurative languge?
I dont think that the author of my book used any figurative languge because its a childrens book and I dont have anything to say about Natalie Babbitt's style of writing because it fits the age bracket the book was supposed to be set at.

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Summary: awsome book!!!!!!!
Review: I really liked the book Tuck Everlasting. The begining of the book was pretty hard to follow. When we were reading the book in class we didn't really understand it eather. When we started getting to the middle of the book it started to make sense. The end I thought was kind of sad because Winnie died. She poured the water on the toad because she didn't want to live forever. That is what I thought about Tuck Everlasting

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Summary: READ it, LOVE it, BUY it
Review: There are a lot of things in the book Tuck Everlasting that I like. The most amazing part I thought was when Whinnie stumbles upon a boy drinking from a spring. This is when Whinne is brought home by the Tucks, Jesse Tuck was the one she saw at the spring that day. The thing that is so great about the Tuck's is that they have the ability to live forever because of drinking from the spring and remain as they were forever. Tuck Everlasting is one of the most exciting book I have ever read. It has adventure, drama, death, and romance. If you are in to the type of books that you don't ever want to put down because they are so exciting, then you should, for sure, read this great book. Any person from 9 to 99 will enjoy this heart warming book.

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Summary: The Delightful & Provoking story
Review: This book is a great,enthusiastic story,which starts by letting you know interesting things so that you would want to finish reading it.The writing is superb and the plot engrosses the images and themes in a readers mind.Winnie one of the characters becomes freinds with the Tuck family, whom changes her life. The Tuck family is known for a well in which they got and drink that freezes them in time and gives them everlasting life, though nobody knows.They will never change,grow old, and never die. They know that the world should never know, because letting their secret out would be the change of life on earth for the worse.The Tuck family includes a mother,father, and two sons.The mother, Mae Tuck killed a man which could be a big mistake, because once people try to execute her for the crime they'll notice the secret immortality.As well as if they keep her merely in prison they'll see that she doesn't age.This was the worst dilemma that the Tuck's family go through as for Winnie she won't have a woman from whom to depend.

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Summary: Tuck Everlasting....
Review: Though I love the idea and story of this book, I didn't particularly like the way the story was told. It is a little over 100 pages. I know this is a young children's book but they are learning nothing by reading the bare minimum of the strong subject matter of immortality. Except for Winnie, the character depth of the Tucks only skimmed the surface. I would have loved to read more about the in-depth feelings that each family member was having. All in all, the story was over in the wink of the eye. Events and occurances slammed right against the next, hardly giving a moment to consider what was going on. A little more storytelling would have helped this book reach its full potential.

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Summary: One of the best books I have seen in a long time
Review: I picked this book up at my local library after reading the back cover and deciding it might be interesting. It's a decision I didn't regret. This book is a fantastic tale, I'd even go so far as to say it's a classic. I don't want to give away too many (if any) plot details for people who have not yet read it so forgive me if this review is a little sketchy.
The book is excellent in so many details. The descriptions of the people and places are very vivid and help to build up a tangible mental picture of the events, people and places the story features. The characters are individual and readily indentifiable-with and this helps to give the story real emotional impact as you come to see it not just as a story but as the lives of real people (even though it isn't). There are some beautifully poignant passages in the book and the underlying messages of the book don't in any way detract from the beauty of the story, as is so often the case in semi-philosophical literature. The ending caps the story off brilliantly and maintains the mood of the story perfectly right up until the last page.
This is one of those books that really make you THINK after you have read them which is a rare thing to find and I find myself mentally revisiting it even now, several months after I read it. You find yourself thinking about the characters, about their lives outside of the story, exploring the implications and feelings of the book.
I found this book excellent and regard it in the same light as The Lorax (another of my favourites). I believe it is a book that will appeal to a wide range of people and recommend you at least give it a look and you'll probably find you can't put it down.