Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting

By RINEHART AND WINSTON HOLT

118 ratings 144 reviews 163 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 3 - 8W527848

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing older.

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN-13: 9781432838423
ISBN-10: 1432838423
Published on 3/8/2017
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152

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Tuck everlasting is so good it will make you smile and laugh cry so I want you to read it and please follow me

thisgirl thisgirl

This book to me was a very great book. We read it in class and all of the students loved it. The book is very easy to fallow along to. If you read it make sure to take your time on chapter 12, it is a very lovely chapter.

This book is awesome. It is about a girl who meets a family which are the Tucks and finds out about their secret. Not just that but a stranger hears the secret. This book has characters full of adventure and curiosity. the author used her time wisely.

This book is very great. Its about a girl who makes new friends. It has a lot of action and adventure.

Janiah Janiah

I like this book

This book is about a girl who has a choice and dosen't know what to chose if she will want to i am not going to spoile it for you read it to find out

This book was such and interesting book. It was so interesting because the author made it so you would have so much perdictions and she also made it so you may think something but then you are wrong and something better happens. If you like that you should totally read this book.

Oh My Gosh. This book is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! I thought it would be boring. Like there is a girl on the cover, holding a frog, so what? This book is amazing sooooooooo far.

maddiepitbull maddiepitbull

In Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt gives her readers an adventurous story about the blessings and downsides of eternal life. Tuck Everlasting takes place in the fictional forest of Treegap, where the Tucks have lived for the last twenty years, but the town in which Winnie lives isn’t named. Tuck Everlasting’s Natalie Babbitt introduces the protagonists: the lovable Tuck family and Winnie. There is Winnie, who is the only child of her parents; Mae Tuck, Jesse and Miles’s mother and Tuck’s wife; Tuck, Jesse and Miles’ father and Mae’s husband; Miles, the older brother of Jesse; and Jesse, Miles’ younger brother. The Tuck family has been wandering about, trying to throw off suspicions of people they meet, guarding their largest and only secret wisely… until Winnie Foster stumbles upon their home and the root, or stream, of their secret. The Tucks explain to her that ever since they drank water from a magical spring, the family became immortal. The Tucks explain to Winnie how living forever at the same age isn’t as exciting then everyone thinks. The writing style in Tuck Everlasting is in third person. Natalie Babbitt introduces the Tucks to both Winnie and the readers in a style similar to watching the chapters happen in front of you. Babbitt’s descriptiveness lets readers visualize the scenes in their head. A few examples of Tuck Everlasting include: “But dying’s just part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can’t pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that’s the blessing.” and “The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in never narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?” Tuck Everlasting is an artfully written story about the joys of life and accepting death. It makes readers think when Tuck explains to Winnie why she is better off not drinking from the stream. He tells her that though many people dream that the blessing is to live forever, the real blessing is to be in the whole circle, living and dying. The story is thoughtfully made and is a great way to rejoice life and death.

Tuck Everlasting was the most boring book I have ever read. There was no action at all. The author wasted too much time describing useless things and the main characters that are protagonists are weirdly creepy. The author spent 24 of the 26 chapters describing a whole lot of nothing and

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