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Summary: IT'S B-O-R-I-N-G!
Review: Tuck Everlasting is one of the worst stories I have ever read in my Junior High career. It doesn't catch my attention at all. Not at any point at time where I was intrested in it. People need better books in the world. Like something exciting, like the Terminator or even the Pirates of the Carrabbian. This book is immature, real bad. Who would find the fountain of youth in the woods? That's stupid! And the guy in the yellow suit? Why doesn't he take a bath! Why didn't he change or sumthin'? See what I'm saying? I can't believe people actually like this book. This is like something out of Barney or even Teletubbies. I can't even explain how much this book is so boring.
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Summary: not so good
Review: I personally though the book wasn't very good. It was sort of confusing and weird at the same time. I think it would be better for girls than boys. But there was a lot of people who did like it so I guess give it a try.
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Summary: Stink's Review
Review: I liked the book a lot because they lived forever and they never died. That would be really cool to live forever because u can't die, never get hurt, and always be alive. I also like it because they all where really nice to each other and they helped each other.
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Summary: Cheers for Tuck!
Review: Tuck Everlasting is a great book for junior high kids. It is imaginative and descriptive. It is imaginary, but instead of getting caught up in sci-fi affects, it concentrates more on the relationship between the characters. The book brings up so many questions about life. So many people talk about being young forever, but if you had the chance to drink from the fountain of youth, would you? Is it a blessing or a curse? The character that I empathized most with is the man in the yellow suit. His dream was to live forever. His goal was to find the secret of the Tucks. I would recommend this book to my friends. It is a great read!
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Summary: Terrific From Begining to End
Review: This story keeps the reader's interest because the character's actions are different from reality. It would be fun but also a little scary being part of the Tuck family. Since their lives are so adventerous, it would be very exciting. The scary part would be having to live a secretive life. I would recommend this book because the author's message is so true: It's important to live out life to the fullest and accept life's changes.
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Summary: My opinion about the book Tuck Everlasting by Margret Clark
Review: I think the book Tuck Everlasting was a wonderful book because it made me feel like I was in the book myself,as if I new each character. The first time that I heard of the book I thought it sounded boring, but as I forced myself to read it I grew to love it. After I would read a chapter I wasn't able to just walk away. I had to sit and think about this story and what I just read. It really kept me interested. This story is about a 10 year old girl named Winifred Foster whose parents pay too much attention to her so she runs away. Yet she doesn't know that by running away she would learn about a mythical tale with mythical people such as the Tuck family(Jesse Tuck, Miles Tuck, Mae Tuck, and Angus Tuck) who could live forever. She is then taken to a small care free cottage where the Tucks live and feels as if she is free atlast! Although she is there for only a few days she learns more than she has ever learned before in her whole life. Then a man who had been tracking the Tucks and their secret makes a bargin with the frightened parents of Winifred. Their secret is almost revealed! Read this magical tale to find out the rest of the story and the juicey details! I recommend this book to kids 11 and up because of the advanced vocabulary. This is an unbelievable tale that I will read for the rest of my life!
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Summary: Largely considered cheated out of the Newberry
Review: I read this book as a child in the 1980s and two elements of the story stuck with me over the years. The first was how sad the book is. As a kid I was not one of those girls who liked reading moony depressing stories all the time. In fact, for years I was convinced that that was all that realistic fiction had to offer. This particular book is better catagorized as science fiction or fantasy, and I had entered into it without prior knowledge of the ending. When it did end I admitted that the book, while good, is very sad. The other response I remember having after finishing the book was a sense of anger at Winnie's treatment of the toad. Recall if you will Winnie's sudden desire to douse a friendly toad with the spring water that grants eternal life. Here you have a patient creature that has done nobody any harm, and Winnie gives the toad, against its own will perhaps, everlasting existence. The toad never asked for it, and how was Winnie's treatment of the toad any different from the treatment that the man in the yellow suit was going to give her? Reading the book now, I enjoyed the descriptive elements that fill the book, making it wonderfully evocative. The summer rain section is perhaps one of the best prose selections in children's fiction today. The fact that the villain of the piece is referred to at all times as "the man in the yellow suit" is also very interesting. You learn all about his life, his obsessions, and his final wish, but you never learn his name. I'd love to know why the author chose to make the man that much more separated from the reader. Maybe it was so that you wouldn't feel too much sympathy for him when Mae Tuck struck him down with the gun. Speaking of which, that crime itself does seem a little unresolved. But that's just my thoughts on the matter. Mostly, I was amazed at how short the story was. There are no lost words in this novella. It would pair especially well with another book in which the protagonist meets an extraordinary family that causes them to reexamine their own assumptions up until that time. Perhaps "Surviving the Applewhites".
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Summary: kiwi_tropical_gurl2008
Review: It all started when a woman named Mae Tuck awoke in bed next to her husband! He was sound asleep.....as he usually is....when Mae woke him up to say that the boys...their sons....were coming home. He didn't stir, but she said "I will go and meet them in the woods." That's when he woke up and said "u know its dangerous out there! Them Foster people live there! They own them woods!" she said that she must go meet them there to guide them the way home.
Winnie Foster is a ten-year-old girl. She gets to much interest from her family, so decides to run away. While running away, she meets the Tuck family, counting Jesse Tuck, Mae Tuck, Miles Tuck, and Angus Tuck. Jesse, Mae, and Miles take her to Tuck when they find her, so he can simplify the secret of the spring, but also to make clear the value of no one knowing about it.
Previous in the book, Winnie met a stranger, wearing a yellow suit. He has been looking for the Tucks for a long time, and he has at last found them, and wants to get the spring. He tells the Fosters that Winnie has been taken away by dangerous people, and he knows where she is. He makes a deal to get her, if they give him all of their woods, as well as the magical spring.
The stranger went to the Tucks, but instead of getting Winnie, Mae kills him, concerned for Winnie. She has to go to jail, soon to be put in the gallows which is where they hang people.
The Tucks and Winnie have to get Mae out of jail, or the whole world will discover the secret the Tucks and Mae hold. They come up with a plan, and got her out.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT U ASK? READ IT TO FIND OUT!
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Summary: A book always turuns out to be good at the end!
Review: Tuckeverlasting is a really great book. In Tuckeverlasting I think it was about Winnie meeting the Tucks. The Tucks are a nice family. When I finished the book it turned out to be great.
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Summary: This is a good book!
Review: I think Tuck Everlasting is a good book because the author makes it exciting and makes you want to read more. It gives you some vocabulary you have to get used to. If you read this book, you will like it, too. You would want to share it with your friends. Go out and read this book!
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