Tuck Everlasting

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Summary: You can't live forever!
Review: This is a good story that tells and reminds us that everyone has to die and if we didn't, life would dull. Winnie made a hard decision not to drink the water. I think I would have. The Tucks were very kind people and that rubbed off on Winnie.

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Summary: Goodness I Just got my breath back
Review: I liked this story because it gave my an over look of what life will be like if I lived forever. I think Angus Tuck described what life will be like if everyone took a drink from the spring. Natalie Babbitt did a good job on making the characters sound real.

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Summary: A simple story with a simple message
Review: The characters were amusing enough, but I thought it unrealistic that while the young boys were actually over a 100 yrs old, they still acted the age they appeared.Surely they would have matured during there life mentally, even though they stayed the same physically.The message about the life cycle is supposed to make you appreciate every age, obviuously that is something everybody must come to understand, because in reality, eternal life isn't an option.

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Summary: Mature, timeless, thought provoking
Review: This is one of my all time favorite novels, adult or children's. If I were teaching the structure of the novel, this would be an ideal book to use. The book is organized as a circle, with the hub loosened up. Babbitt wonders what effect this would have on the world. She begins with a small spring, virtually unknown. The water from the spring gives eternal life and invincibility to anyone who drinks from it. The Tucks did many years ago and are returning to the spring, when they encounter Winnie Foster, whose family owns the spring and a mysterious man in a yellow suit who follows them at a safe distance. These characters collide and each is changed forever. There is murder, a jailbreak and kidnapping before the story is all told. It ends as quietly as it began and only the readers are privy to the secret. The characters are well drawn. We learn what they are thinking and feeling through deftly written sentences. The author writes poetically in her ability to evoke images and emotions with a few well chosen words. This is very sensitively done. Tuck, the father, is a favorite of mine. He takes Winnie out for an evening boat ride to explain life and death to her, and later that evening finds himself staring enviously at a man who is dying (he cannot). I have recommended this to many people and replaced it many times in my own library. It is a classic!

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Summary: Read it in adolescence and adulthood: loved it both times!
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. It was a reading assignment in around the 4th grade, much to my good fortune, and now, I am a 3rd year college student, and still love it. It is a book for all ages and causes stimulating philosophical thoughts that will provoke even the most skeptical. I highly recommend it to anyone, espescially teachers and parents who need something to read to their children!

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Summary: A touching fantasy about immortality.
Review: The story of an independent and brave ten year old girl, Winnie Foster, and her bizarre forced relationship, and loyal friendship, that develops with an immortal family. Winnie Foster meets Jesse Tuck and her life changes forever. After a relatively slow beginning, the plot speeds up to a tense and anxious climax. The ending is satisfying and touching, written as an epilogue. Babbitt's writing is highly descriptive, painted with plenty of adverbs and adjectives. All 139 pages are filled with text, the only illustration is on the book's cover, the Tuck family cottage and rowboat, appearing serene and peaceful. Possible topics for a book discussion are the life cycle (birth, life and death), morality (stealing, killing, lying, saving a human life) and friendship. It is a deserving ALA Notable book.

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Summary: ...it's so good that I read ahead anyways.
Review: This book was exiting! It made you want to read to the next chapter! I am doing this book in a 6th grade READING class. The teacher says not to read ahead, but what-the-heck, it's so good that I read ahead anyways.

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Summary: The best book I have ever placed my hands upon
Review: This book was the best, by far, I have ever read in my life. Natalie Babbit is one of the best Authors ever. The book can make you stop and think, even though it was hard for me to stop reading. I read it several years ago and still go back to it so many times. I really recommend this book.

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Summary: Thought provoking!
Review: Society values youth so much that we forget about all of the wonderful experiences that come with getting older. I'm going to give this book to every one of my friends as they turn 40 and feel like they're "over the hill".

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Summary: This book is very good!
Review: I thought Tuck Everlasting was a very good book. I recamend it to people that like a book that you can not put down.