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Summary: Fairly bad
Review: During the last few weeks, our english class has had to read Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbit. I thought the book was sort of boring, and had no real adventure. It was also very slow, there were not very many things that you could relate to, it wasn't funny, and there was no character development.
She was, however, very discriptive.
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Summary: Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful
Review: I read this book in college for one of my children's literature classes and I loved it. I ended up reading it ot a group of eight year olds too and they were interested in it the entire time. I think it does a wonderful job of explaining death and I think it's just a great book overall. The movie is great too.
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Summary: ERin DUffy from holy angas school
Review: I remember having to read this novel in fourth grade. My entire class got completely caught up in the world of the Tucks and Winne Foster. Before reading, our teacher asked us if we would live forever, given the choice. Of course, the entire class, being nine years old, answered in the affirmative. However, by the time we finished the book, we had all changed our minds completely.
This novel changed my outlook on life completely, even though I was only nine years old at the time. The Tuck family wishes they could go back to the way things were before, and simply live their lives. Winnie realizes that there is more to life beyond her fence, and she learns to cherish her life. Even without the epilogue, it was obvious to me what Winnie would choose to do, and having the frog sit in the middle of the road, waiting to be run over at the end was a nice touch.
Our class loved the book so much that our teacher bought us each a copy (I always wondered how she managed to pay for that). I still have mine, and I cherish it. This novel is great for younger readers, but it's also great for all ages. I still go back to read it every once in a while, and it is definitely on my list of favorite books.
I recommend this novel to anyone old enough to read it, and to parents who want something to read to their children not old enough to read this novel themselves. It's a terrific novel, one of the best I've read.
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Summary: Good Book!!!
Review: In the book Tuck Everlasting a girl named Winnie wonders into the woods and sees a boy drinking from a spring.But she can't have any of the water.There is something mysterious about the water.The family the boy lives with is very secretive.He takes her to his house to explain why she can't have any.She has to keep their secret or else....
In this book the author is trying to make you think about the book.She is trying to tell you that some people really do live differently and sometimes you have to accept them for who they are.Winnie had to keepthe Tucks secret for their safety.Babbit makes this book adventurous and suspenseful.
This book has very good partsto it.Babbit has everything set up the way it should be.People come in at the right time and things will happen that will change the story.It is exciting to read something so clear and concise.She created a plot full of twists and turns for young readers.The first three chapters took a while to get good, but after that it was awesome.If you are looking for a book to read you want Tuck Everlasting.You will enjoy it!
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Summary: An Everlasting lovely story
Review: Much before the eco-friendly fashion, Natalie Babbitt wrote a novel about the importance of nature for life on earth. 'Tuck Everlasting' tells the story of a family doomed to --or blessed with-- living forever and never getting older. They have been hiding for many years, but end up found by an adolescent who lives nearby. Telling more is spoiling the fun of reading the wonderful novel wrote for kids, but that may please adults alike.What I liked most is how subtle the writer deals with the ecology preservation is in the novel. The Tucks got eternal life from drinking the water of a pond, and there is a man in yellow suit trying to buy the place where the pond is, so that he can bottle the water and sell it. I think that somehow the writer is showing us how dangerous it is to mess up with Mother Nature. All the time, Babbitt talks about the importance of the forests and the water to life. This is a book that will sure last forever. In a hundred of years people will still be reading this novel and enjoying it. Kids may grow used to technology, but they will always be touched by such a simple and lovely story. So will adults.
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Summary: Tuck Everlasting Book Review
Review: Often times people have to make important decisions in life. In Natalie Babbit's fantasy, Tuck Everlasting Winnie has to make a decision that can change her life. In my opinion Tuck Everlasting is a book that you can't put down because you want to know what the secret is and what decision Winnie makes. 10 year old Winnie Foster lives in a touch me not cottage in Tree Gap. She doesn't like where she lives, she feels like she is in prison. One day she ventured out of the fence and into the woods. She meets up with Jesse, Mae and Miles Tuck. They throw Winnie on the horse and ride it quickly to the Tuck's cottage, not knowing that someone was watching. They tell Winnie about the fountain of youth and that it makes you live forever. Jesse tells Winnie to drink the water when she turns 17 so they could live together forever. Will Winnie drink the water or will she not? Natalie Babbit uses characters to get points out to the readers. For instance when Tuck took Winnie out on the boat he said to her, "Know what this is, all around us Winnie, life moving growing changing never the same 2 minutes together. This water, you look out at every morning, and looks the same but it isn't, all night long its moving, coming in through the stream back there west, slipping out through the stream valleys east here, always quiet, always new, moving on. You can't hardly see the current, can you? And sometimes the wind makes it look like it's going the other way. But it's always there, the waters always moving on, and someday, after a long while, it comes to the ocean. No what happens then to the water? The sun sucks some of it up right out of the ocean and carries it back in clouds, and them it rains, and the rain falls into the stream, and the stream keeps moving on, taking it all back again. It's a wheel, Winnie. Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs are part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in you always growing and changing, and always moving on. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is.
It goes on to the ocean. But this rowboat now, it's stuck. If we didn't move this out ourselves it would stay here forever, trying to get loose, but stuck. That's what us Tuck's are, Winnie." Often times people have to make important decisions in life. I think that Tuck Everlasting is a book that you can't put down because you want to know what the secret is and what decision Winnie makes. I think that this book is for ages 12 and older for a full understanding of the book, and some of the vocabulary Natalie Babbit uses.
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Summary: Still Great!
Review: Read it as a child and loved it, so I had to read it again as an adult and still fully injoyed it
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Summary: bad
Review: This book features many key points to a good book. It is humorous, detailed, thrilling, and suspenseful all at the same time. The Tucks, mother and father and two sons had involuntarily drunk from a well which freezes them in time and gives them everlasting life. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less of a blessing then it may seem. They will never change, never grow and never die. They know that the world must never be let in on their secret, for it would change life on earth for the worse. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune. Then Mae Tuck kills a man. If they try to execute Mae for the crime, their secret immortality will come out. Winnie must decide if she will help the Tucks before it is too late.
I liked this book very much. Every time I read it I got more and more interested. After every chapter it kept getting even more suspenseful than the last. This book was serious enough for an adult and humorous enough for a child, which is why this is a great book.
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Summary: sucked
Review: this gal called winnie gets kidnapped, big whop! then she makes friends with then. their names are the tucks, and their immortal. natilie keeps on mentioning this wheel. its odd. i DO NOT RECOMEND THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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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