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This year was my first time teaching Tuck Everlasting to my 6th grade class, and it proved to be a treasury of figurative and sensory language. The examples are almost endless in this book! Otherwise, it is entertaining, but shallow. The characters have little depth, and the plot barely scratches the surface of what could have been done with it. Everything is under-developed, except for the language. It is so heavy on setting, in fact, that plot and character almost take a back seat. I would like to see this book adapted into a more densely developed book for older readers.