This is a very odd little book. A ten year old girl lives on a farm that contains a spring of water - which grants immortality. From the time you drink of it, you never age again; if you're 17 (and one of the characters is), you stay 17 forever. The girl meets a family who drank from her spring, and they tell her about their lives. If you ever wondered about being immortal, you should read this book. ( )

The first time i read this book, i was in high school. I loved it then, and i still love it now. I love the conflict that it shows that Winnie goes through. She is struggling the whole book trying to figure out if she wants to live forever, or not take a drink and live the way she should. She battles herself and that's what gives this book it's substance. It is a very good book that i think should be read in our schools more often.

Tuck Everlasing is about a girl, Winnie, who is kept from leaving her yard in order to go out and venture her surroundings. She seems like a very lonely little girl and she talks to herself and animals. She finally decides to leave the gated yard without permission to search the forrest behind her house for a sound of music she heard out there. She stumbles upon a boy, Jesse, and talks to him a bit. There is a stream of water by them and when Winnie tries to take a drink, Jesse demands she doesn't. Winnie is ultimately kidnapped by Jesse's family and taken to their house and told of the powers of the water from which she wanted to drink. There is also a man in a yellow suit that is after to the stream. He has heard of its power and wished to get rich from it. Things happen through out the novel but in the end, Winnie does not drink the water and lives a long and fullfilled life. The Tucks however, live on, forever.

I liked this story up until it seemed as though the author skipped a lot of what could have been in the story. I would like to have known more of what happened in between Winnie going home and her dying.

In my classroom, after we have completed the reading of this novel, I would have my students write their own ending. We could also discuss immortality and all that comes or could come with it.

This book is about a ten year old girl named Winnie who lives near a wooded area that holds a huge secret. The secret is that there is a magic spring that keeps people young forever, essientally the fountain of youth. By mistake she catches Jesse Tuck drinking from it. So Jesse and his brother kidnap her for fear that she will reveal their secret. So they tell her all about the spring and tell her not to share the secret. The rest of the book Winnie goes back and forth about if she should drink from it.

I really love this book it's a classic how could you not? It is just so good that you imagine that you are Winnie wanting to be a part of something magical. That's how I feel about the book I wish that I was Winnie sometimes. Ha!
As a classroom extension this would be a great book to read together as a class and then watch the movie because it's just as great. I could discuss with the class the fantasy of the book and explain how it is impossible and maybe we could discuss whether or not we would want to be immortal. It's interesting to me how similar this book is to Twighlight.

Tuck Everlasting is a story about a girl named Winnie Foster. She is bored with her mundane life and joins up with Mae, Miles and Jesse Tuck. She meets Angus (the father) later. They live together for some time and Winnie discovers the Tucks will live forever. Jesse asks her to drink from the stream when she turns 17 so they can be married and live together forever. Mae ends up in jail and Winnie takes her place in a switch. She is returned to her parents. The Tucks come back later and discover Winnie's tombstone, but there is a little frog who lives in forever.

This is such a sad book. We read it in the sixth grade and after re-reading it, I think the last chapter is so powerful. Winnie made a choice to follow the course of human life instead of immortality. This theme helps drive the action in the book. The whole book is a great read and I would enjoy watching the movie.

In a classroom, I would have the students write an essay about whether or not they would drive the water to live forever and why. We could then share them with the class. We also could act out the story in a play. Divide the book into four or five scenes and have one group act out each scene. The students watching could list the characters and main idea of the play as they watch.