However, since they essentially kidnapped the girl and are later caught, the secret of the spring may be exposed. The family then explains that the spring makes them live forever and she mustn’t drink from it or she too will live forever.
The boy, his mother and brother steal her away to their home 30 miles away. She feels thirsty and the boy tells her she shouldn’t drink from the spring. She stumbles on a boy drinking from a spring. A lonely 10 year old girl decides to explore the forest adjacent her family’s home. I’m primarily looking for childrens books and I’m not sure which age this is appropriate for. That said, Scholastic has determined that the interest level is 3rd grade, and it’s definitely a middle level book and too young for high school…unless the readers are quite low and need a short, simple book with complex themes.I had a hard time giving this a rating. However, the regional dialect spoken by the Tucks might be confusing for low level students. Read aloud as a class, I think ELLs would be alright. I won’t spoil it, but I was very pleased just as I was thinking, “Winnie, you best not spend eternity with a boy you don’t know.” Before it could get too creepy, though, the book had a lovely ending. He had JUST met her, and she’s, what, 10 years old? Stop it, Jesse. The weirdest part was Jesse falling in love with Winnie. Sure, she didn’t love her home that much, but she’s a little girl! Sounds a little like Stockholm Syndrome to me. Like, Winnie falls in love with her captors pretty quickly. Then you’ll stop and think about life – how everything has a purpose and eventually lives out that purpose, not to mention how hard and lonely it would be to stay the same while everybody and everything changes. The point is that, no, you probably wouldn’t. The message of the whole book was beautiful too, and it makes the reader think about whether or not you would drink the spring water and live forever. My favorite part was definitely the poetic language, and lots of teachers read this book as a class and teach it because of the language. Somehow I’d never read this classic until now (I mean, the audiobook was only 3ish hours long). Tuck Everlasting is as beautiful and sweet as the cover portrays. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune. 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. 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.
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