Tuck Everlasting is slow-moving book with no real climax. There is not enough description of the characters, not allowing you to fully understand why the characters do certain thing. The author dragged on about setting and description for 24 chapters (there are 26 chapters). Nothing really happens, Natalie wastes time over-explaining the setting and what us happening. Jesse, is a creepy and twisted boy, he has been living looking like he is 17 for how knows how long and he WANTS TO MARRY A 11 YEAR OLD GIRL. Winnie's family seems stuck-up and snobby,p but Natalie does not explain her family enough. This is such a boring book!!! What is wrong with Winnie, she leaves Jesse hanging.
Tuck Everlasting
By RINEHART AND WINSTON HOLT
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 8 | W | 5 | 27848 |
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
Book Reviews (142)
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Natalie Babbitt, the author of Tuck Everlasting brings the reader on a mysterious adventure throughout the book and leaves the reader wondering. The setting in Tuck Everlasting is in a village called Treegap, in the middle of nowhere. The Tuck family has a big secret but no one knows it. Until a curious girl named Winnie finds out their secret. The Tuck family has to make sure Winnie doesn’t tell anyone. Worse things start to happen when a strange man who wants to sell the spring water, follows Winnie. The author explains everything so well and uses strong words to really make me feel the connection of conflict. My opinion is that, Tuck everlasting starts off slow with not much conflict or interest but as the story progresses it has tons of interesting conflict. It also has lots of figurative language to make the story stronger. Such as, similes, metaphors, and personification. Overall, it is a great book and I do recommend it.
Tuck everlasting is a great book. It is an exiting adventure book. It will make you feel all emotions. Their are lots of exiting characters in this book. The most mysterious is the man in yellow. he will make a deal that wont be finished. Read this book to find out lots more.
Natalie Babbitt, the author of Tuck Everlasting, sweeps readers along on the thought-stirring journey of Winnie Foster when she meets the eternally unaging Tuck family. The well-crafted characters included eleven-year-old Winnie Foster, a young girl who yearns to escape the confines of her yard and to be free of proper, beautiful clothing--and finally gets her wish. The Tuck family includes Mae Tuck, the caring, mentally old mother of the family, Angus Tuck, the weary father who wishes the Tucks could someday age and die to allow them back into the “wheel of life”, Miles, the oldest of two brothers whose wife left him under the belief he had sold his soul to the devil to say young, and Jesse, the eternally seventeen-year-old boy. There is also the eternally living horse, the yellow-suited man, and the somewhat dim constable. The book is set in the fictional town of Treegap, where there is a wood. In the middle of the wood, there is a pleasant touch-me-not cabin, in which the young Winnie foster lives with her parents and grandmother. The young girl escapes into the wood one day, and finds a spring, as which a boy, Jesse, is resting. When she sees the boy, she asks to drink from the spring, being dreadfully thirsty, but Jesse panically tries to stop her, and eventually Mae and Miles arrive, halting Winnie from drinking the water which would bless--or curse--her with eternal life. What follows is a story that can change how readers think forever. Personally, I admire Natalie's writing style and admire her ability to tell the story of the Tucks so creatively. She made me think a lot about what it might be like to live forever--is it really a good thing to never grow old? She also makes it easy to envision the wood and treegap in my mind’s eye; the amber and emerald light filtering through green leaves to the forest floor, the eternal ash tree, the animals, and the way she explains how things connect together. Samples of her writing style: “His tall body moved continuously; a foot tapped, a shoulder twitched. And it moved in angles, rather jerkily. But at the same time he had a kind of grace, like a well-handled marionette. Indeed, he seemed almost to hang suspended there in the twilight. But Winnie, though she was half charmed, was suddenly reminded of the stiff black ribbons they had hung on the door of the cottage for her grandfather's funeral.” “Into it all came Winnie, eyes wide, and very much amazed. It was a whole new idea to her that people could live in such disarray, but at the same time she was charmed. It was… comfortable. Climbing behind Mae up the stairs to see the loft, she thought to herself: ‘Maybe it's because they think they have forever to clean it up.’ And this was followed by another thought, far more revolutionary: ‘Maybe they just don't care!’” “There was a clearing directly in front of her, at the center of which an enormous tree thrust up, its thick roots rumpling the ground ten feet around in every direction. Sitting relaxed with his back against the trunk was a boy, almost a man. And he seemed so glorious to Winnie that she lost her heart at once.” “She rocked, gazing out at the twilight, and the soothing feeling came reliably into her bones. That feeling—it tied her to them, to her mother, her father, her grandmother, with strong threads too ancient and precious to be broken. But there were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks.” This book, despite being slightly short, really makes you think, and I love it--I plan on re-reading it until my eyes burn out. It makes the reader think and consider what it would be like to live forever, and it really makes you second-guess your first thoughts of immortality. It’s most certainly a must-read for anyone! -Dakota Corr.
This book was very interesting. So here is a formal review that I wrote: Natalie Babbitt, the author of Tuck Everlasting, takes her readers on a journey in the 1880s in Treegap where you life is undetermined. The main characters in Tuck Everlasting are Winnie Foster, the man in yellow, and the Tuck family, which includes Mae, Tuck, and their sons, Miles and Jesse. The setting for Tuck Everlasting takes place in a fictional place called Treegap, a small town, and in the Tucks’ cabin. Readers are introduced to Winnie Foster and her family, who owns a normal wood. Winnie is very bored by her family because they never let Winnie go anywhere. So she decides to escape, when she escaped, she went to the woods and saw a handsome boy drink from the fountain of never ending life. That’s when it all began. Babbitt's writing style is very detailed, descriptive and has it own uniqueness. It makes the reader think they were there, in Treegap, drinking from the fountain of eternity. She also uses a lot of similes and metaphors to get to know the place and the plot better. For example, here are some quotes that describes her writing style: “But things can come together in strange ways. The woods was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A Ferris wheel has one. As the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find out this too late.” “It was so much clouding up as thickening, somehow, from every direction at once, the blank blue gone to haze. And then, as the sun sank reluctantly behind the treetops, the haze hardened to a brilliant brownish-yellow. In the woods, the leaves turned underside-up, giving the trees a silvery cast. Tuck Everlasting made me think about the world, about it was to be alive forever, to actually consider if it was right or wrong to be immortal. I feel like I were there, right in front of Winnie. It’s like Babbitt done some magic to this book, every time you think you can put the book down, it won’t let you. It was a fascinating way to see to world. Tuck Everlasting is a everlasting book indeed. I hope this makes you want more to read the book. <3 ~~Cafy <3
Tuck Everlasting is a well written fantasy book by Natalie Babbitt that you should totally read. Winnie Foster is a young girl who lives in a wood that her family owns. One day, she meets Angus, Jesse, Mae, and Miles Tuck, who will never age because they drank from a magic spring that just so happens to be in the wood. Winnie must choose whether or not to join the Tucks on their everlasting journey. However, Winnie is not the only one who knows their secret. An evil stranger plans to do bad things with that spring. You'll never want to put this book down because of Natalie's enchanting characters and writing style. I really enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it. “ She began to creep forward. She would just get close enough, she told herself. Just close enough to see. And then she would turn away and run.” Natalie Babbitt was born July 28, 1932 in Dayton OH. She was inspired to write the book when her 4-year-old daughter woke up from a nap very upset because she was scared of dying. I hope you enjoy this books as much as I did!
Natalie Babbitt an author who wanted to be an illustrator and grew up in Ohio's Tuck Everlasting is amazing! As you read through this adventure you'll find a young girl named Winnie who curiously wanders in the woods and sees a boy drinking some magic water. She doesn't know it's magic so the boy in fear of her drinking it kidnaps her with his family the Tuck's and brings them home. She finds out that the Tucks really are everlasting? They will never die. They drank the magic water. But as we find out later in the book, the Tucks and Winnie aren't the only ones that know about this water.... This funny book has some really unexpected lines like this one! “But it was the thought of seeing Jesse again that kept Winnie's stomach fluttering. And at last he came down from the loft, yawning and rosy, rubbing his curls, just as Mae was piling the plates with flapjacks”. Find out more by reading this magical adventure that will make you sit on the edge of this seat!
Natalie Babbitt's, Tuck everlasting was a thrilling, and entertaining book. I love how she describes everything so well. From the way that everyone looks, to the the way a tiny toad hops, she doesn't fail to make you feel like you are there yourself. to go along with that, I love how she makes all the characters act so realistic. For example she makes Winnie feel tired after her crazy first day with the tucks and I can defiantly relate with that. This helps me get so attached to the characters and again help me feel like I am in this situation with them. These are only a few of the reasons why I loved Tuck everlasting!
This book was good especially to the other books we read in 5th grade. It's about a girl who loves adventure who stumbles upon a family that lives forever, never changing. Not only that but someone finds out about them and the water they drank to become like that and he wants to sell it. You'll have to read the book to hear the rest but I can tell you that the girl falls in love with a boy from the family. If you like mystery and adventure with a little bit of romance then you'll like this book
This book is the best!!!!