Tuck Everlasting
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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 any older.
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Add a SummaryIn the book Tuck Everlasting by Nathalie Babbitt there is the Tuck family who are immortal.A girl named Winnie is tired of her mother and decides to run away in the forest where she meets a boy drinking water from a magical spring. She gets to learn about him and his family (the tucks) and finds out they are immortal. Will everyone in the village find out and know that they are immortal or will it still be a secret?
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Add a QuoteThe 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 ever 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?
The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd of cows who were, to say the least, relaxed. It wandered along in curves and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant tangent to the top of a small hill, ambled down again between fringes of bee-hung clover, and then cut sideways across a meadow. Here its edges blurred. It widened and seemed to pause, suggesting tranquil bovine picnics: slow chewing and thoughtful contemplation of the infinite. And then it went on again and came at last to the wood. But on reaching the shadows of the first trees, it veered sharply, swung out in a wide arc, and passed around.
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Add a CommentI really liked this book. The movie ways well done but they changed a few things. I would sudgest you read the book first then watch the movie. Even thought they both end the same I think how the movie ends is better.
i love this book it will always be my favorite book in the world<3
this book is about a little girl who is tired of her mother and father always making her act so perfect. so she dicides to run away into the near by forest. In the forest she meets a boy who was drinking water coming out of a tree. read the book to find out what happens.
This was and still is my all time favorite since literature circles in grade 4. Such a sad ending when she doesn't join the Tuck family though.
saw the movie:) absoulotly LOVED IT!!:)
Read this one in school. Absolutely loved it!
Read it for my senior-women's book club;. selected by a retired teacher. I loved the fairy-tale effect -- at age 79 I still believe in fairies in the woods. It also presents an important message on the value of death after life. Can hardly wait for the group discussion in two days.
I remember reading this book in grade 4 and watching the movie in class for english. There are some very funny parts in this book as well and it makes you want to keep on reading it till you are finished and on the very last page.
Wonderful book :)
This book is a fairytale in everything that implies: it has beautiful, musical language, it creates pictures in your mind as you read the words, it teaches a big lesson in a simple way, it’s a book I can see myself reading to a child of mine.