Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting is set in the late 1800’s. Winnie Foster is from a perfect and overprotecting family. Winnie at times fees like a prisoner in her own home because of all of the rules. One day Winnie decides to run away from home into the woods. Winnie runs into Jesse Tuck at the spring (the spring makes you live forever if you drink from it). Winnie decides to go with the Tucks but it could be seen as if they were kidnapping her in other people’s eyes. Winnie instantly loves the freedom she has. Jesse and Winnie start to have romantic feelings for one another. Jesse really wants Winnie to drink water from the spring so they can be together. A man in a yellow suit finds Winnie and is going to take her home when he ends up being killed by Mae. Mae is sentenced to death but if that were to happed the family secret of immorality would be discovered. Winnie helps to free Mae with the Tuck’s. The Tuck’s must flee. Winnie is offered to go with them but she declines. Jesse gives Winnie a bottle of the spring water to drink in a few years and he promises to come back for her. However, Winnie ends up pouring the water on a toad. Years later, the Tuck’s returns to find Winnie grave but they come across the toad!!

I really liked this book.
It dealt with the circle of life and how one thing can change the rest of your life. If I was put in Winnies shoes I would not have drunken the water either. This book really confronts the issue of living forever (because many children think about it… I know I did) and how it might not be all it's cracked up to be.
I thought it was odd the Winnie was only an eleven year old girl when all of this happened to her. At times I forgot how young she truly was. I would think that the story would be for someone a tad bit older.