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Tuck Everlasting Is a great book for tweenager readers. The plot starts off slow but picks up fast and by doing so it puts you in the position of the main character. The plot follows a young girl named Winnie Foster that lives in a strict household on the edge of a forest. One day while playing in the front yard she hears a tinkling sound like music. Her grandma says that it is elves playing music in the forest. The next day the girl goes looking for the elves in the forest. When she is looking for the elves she gets thirsty and luckily enough she finds a spring. Just before she drinks it a boy jumps out around the tree and stops her.


She soon learned that the springs grants immortality and the boy and his family had drunk it. The boy's family decides to take the girl home to tell her and make sure she doesn't tell anybody. The rest of the story a man in a yellow coat tries to sell the water and arrest the boy and his family for kidnapping the girl. Mae the mom ends up killing the man in the yellow jacket by accident. Mae gets put in jail and was planned to be hanged but Winnie Foster saves her.


Several characters develop in different ways. The immortal family develops and becomes more caring. After years of everybody they know dying around them they can finally appreciate how short and fragile life is. Also, you can see the damage done by immortality and how lonely that family is. You can clearly see this when the two boys say that their wives and family abandoned them because they thought they were under some dark spell. As quoted in chapter 7 “My wife, she finally made up her mind I'd sold my soul to the Devil. She left me.” As for the young girl named Winnie Foster she learns that there is much more to life than living with her family and she develops a good sense of right and wrong. In the end of the book she helps the mother of the family escape from the death sentence. In the end of the book all the characters get a brand new perspective on life.


I would recommend this book to anybody that wants a quick book that they can finish within the week. I would also recommend this book to anybody who likes stories with good motifs and themes. I would not recommend this to anybody that is not a reader or ready books often. This book involves some more complicated language and underlying themes that might leave younger readers confused by the book. But if you like short books or classic literature then I think you will enjoy this book.