Tuck Everlasting

Author: Natalie Babbitt
Genre: Fantasy

Pages: 160


Winnie Foster wants freedom from her own little "touch me not house". When  she runs off to the woods she meets a boy named Jessie Tuck who in the past accidentally drank magic spring water. When Winnie found the water and was about to drink it, Jessie stopped her and now had to reveal the secret that the Tuck family had been hiding for 87 years.  But when a man in a yellow suit appears and tries to take the magic water to sell,  what will happen to the Tuck family and how will it effect the rest of the world?


I rate Tuck Everlasting, 4.5 out of 5. I don't give tuck everlasting a 5 because it is overly descriptive which turned me off. But the story was great. It was magical, suspenseful, and romantic. It had many important themes such as death, life, choices and friendship. This book made me ponder about life and had lots of wonderful quotes. These are some of my favourites:
 
QUOTES

1.  “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”

 
2.   “Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is.”

3.  "But dying's 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."


4.   “Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”
 

5.  “The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much colour. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.”

There is also a movie by Walt Disney. Below is the trailer.

  

This is also a good story to build your vocabulary because it has many unfamiliar words in it. I highly recommend this book.