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Tuck Everlasting Review
Doomed to—or blessed with—eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune. User Submitted Tuck Everlasting ReviewsNovember 26, 2008 Do you like mystical and mysterious woods? Do you like mystical and mysterious woods? Then this is your book. I really enjoyed reading Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. The story is set in magical and mystical forest. Something exciting happens in Treegap and you never want to stop reading. I do not recommend this book for kids under the age of 10, unless they have a large vocabulary and appreciation for descriptive language. The reader should be able to appreciate the language Natalie Babbitt uses. The imagery and descriptive writing are very complex. A kid reading this novel needs to know how to identify the author's use of similes, metaphors, foreshadow, and personification so that they can understand what she is trying to communicate. There are also many large words that you would need to stop and think about. If you don't know the word then it would be harder for a younger reader to understand the meaning, particularly those words that have multiple meanings. I also enjoyed the book's main characters. Babbitt creates characters that are very serious and heart warming. The Tucks are serious about their problem and they really want to fix it but there is no way they can. When Mae is worried, her music box makes her feel warm and soothed inside. When they try to befriend Winnie she thinks their voices are kind and friendly. I have told you what I like about the wonderful book Tuck Everlasting and that I would not recommend this book for children under the age of 10. But if you like mystical and mysterious woods and have a large vocabulary then this is your book for only $7.00. Enjoy!!! November 26, 2008 Action, adventure, and romance Tuck Everlasting Do you like adventure and romance? Then Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt is your book to read. Then you can go on an adventure with the Tuck family and Winnie. This book has a bit of everything -- romance, adventure, and action. It all started when Winnie always thought she was in a prison in her fenced backyard. One day she snuck out of her house and went to the woods. There, she saw a boy drinking from a spring. His name was Jesse. Then she was taken to his father's home by force, and the family told Winnie that the spring that Jesse was drinking from made them live forever. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a HUGE imagination and a good dictionary inside their head, because the novel has complex phrases. I like this book because it has romance, action, and adventure. Have fun reading Tuck Everlasting! November 26, 2008 Get ready to be grabbed Tuck Everlasting This book will grab your free time if you like descriptions and usage of literary devices. This wonderful book is about a special family who meet a ten year old girl who learns their secret--a secret that in the wrong hands could cause a catastrophe. What I liked about this book is that the author, Natalie Babbitt, uses descriptions to allow you to picture the scenes perfectly in your hopefully wonderful imagination. I loved this book inside and out because the author builds suspense through usage of carefully chosen literary devices. There wasn't a single part that I didn't like. This book is wonderful. I would highly recommend you pay the seven dollars to buy this book if you want to be transported. November 24, 2008 It will make you sad If you want a book for $7 then this is the novel for you. Natalie Babbitt's lyrical novel, Tuck Everlasting, needs to be read by a person with a large vocabulary and a love of language. Babbitt uses a lot of descriptive writing in order to help the reader understand the setting and the people with in it, but a reader who just wants to read for the plot will miss important meaning. There are two families in the story--one is orderly, the other is messy. Winnie, from the orderly family feels trapped. She yearns to make a difference in the world. So she runs away and meets a family where she can feel comfortable, important and loved. Because she loves this family so much she is willing to put her own life at risk in order to save them. I liked the romance that developed between Winnie and Jesse and I enjoyed the Tuck family because they are living their life to the fullest. This is a fabulous novel that everybody would enjoy. November 22, 2008 fantastic finger lickign addicting book my teacher in my school made us read thsi book and i thought it was pretty boring in the beggining but once i duginto it i found it really exiting,where else could you find a book about a girl who owns a gigantic wood that amazingly has a magical spring and get kidnapped by total strangers and blah blah bla im probably spoiling the whole book for everyne who wans to buy this book,sorry. and plus this whole thng was for my homework so yeah im done. A+ please November 22, 2008 Tuck Everlasting Wonderful book---great way to get students discussing! Arrived so quickly and in excellent condition! November 17, 2008 Too young for me... I probably would have liked this book a lot more if: A - I was 10 years younger B - I hadn't seen the movie. I find this review hard to write because I don't want to cast a shadow on a perfectly good book. I imagine young children would love it and find it magical, but more me (I'm 21) I just found it a bit tedious. Especially since I knew the story. All that was really left was the writing style (lots of lots of descriptions, right down to the ripples in the water) which I found annoying. But I do recommend this book to anyone under the age of 12. Because it really explores the themes of life/death and living forever in a realistic manner. October 23, 2008 Compelling; But I'm Missing Something This well-known (and surpisingly lacking of contemporary awards) young adult book is about a little girl and a fountain of eternal life (as we know life, that is). Key players here also include a family of ageless centurions under the fountain's power, a mysterious stranger who would exploit that power, and a cast of hapless citizens in the background who don't realize that they live among the most potent force in their little reality. I read this aloud to my kids. They were pulled into the story and quite curious about where this would all lead, but I had the distinct sense that there was an attempted charm in this book that the author never fully achieved. The Tucks (the ageless family) are presented as all-powerful-innocents; immortals who (almost all of them) deeply regret their immortality, and whose regret is soothed by an unexplained love for the little girl who they (almost all of them) want desperately to protect from their own endless fate. I got the intent, but the presentation of this situation didn't "move" me like I hoped it would. All in all, it's a good book but it wouldn't make my top 100 list, although the reviews of my peers are overwhelmingly more worshipful. I did enjoy pondering and discussing the many questions that the book raises, and of course the matters of life and death drip from every page; indeed, by the end of the book, every living thing that we're introduced to is either dead (by one means or another) or plodding through its own eternal changelessness. As a father, it was interesting to see my kids split in their own reactions to the question: would you rather age, change, and die as all things are meant to do, or would you rather live on forever, unchanged and unchangeable? Well? October 14, 2008 Reveiw-good book A magic spring can cause a lot of trouble. When 10-year-old Winnie Foster finds out that the Tucks have everlasting life they have to take her home and convince her that living forever might not be as good as it sounds. When trouble arises, it's Winnie's choice to save the Tuck's, and the spring, from people who care only about themselves. Who would have guessed that a 10-year-old girl would have the choice to change the world...forever? October 8, 2008 I want to give this negative stars! MrLeonard, a reviewer wrote an excellent review of this book. This is a very disturbing book with themes that are utterly unsuitable for children. For more Tuck Everlasting reviews click here.
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