I love this story! I am a teacher and I will be reading this with my 4th and 5th grade students this year! I also love that there is a movie you can watch as well (rated PG) so you can compare and contrast from the book to the movie. I would highly recommend this for 3rd-12th grade students! Also includes a lot of vocabulary to help students improve reading fluency and comprehension.

This was a great book for my 7th grader! Easy read!

Such a sweet story! Winnie Foster is a young girl who escapes her restrictive mother and grandmother one day to wander into the family wood, where she sees a young man drink from a spring under a giant ash tree. Meeting Jesse Tuck will change her boring life, as she has discovered a Tuck family secret: the waters of the spring have life-long powers. The Tuck family kidnaps her in order to convince her that she MUST keep the secret of the spring. A sinister man witnesses the kidnapping; extorts Winnie's family to "sell" him their Wood in order to rescue Winnie; and then threatens the Tuck family. What will Winnie do to help her new friends, as the Tucks have become? Will she grow up to "do something important?" Or does one actually have to grow up before they can do something important? Read it and see. I assume this really-quick read (148 pages) was written for middle-schoolers, but can definitely be enjoyed by all ages, b/c it presents some really important questions, such as the above one facing Winnie in the story, and the universal question of what would YOU do if presented w/ a chance at immortality? 5 stars.

Tuck Everlasting was a sweet and easy read covering a compelling topic , can we live forever and would we want to ?? My former assistant gave me the book she told me there was turtle in it who lives forever but alas it was really a frog ! She read it for school but no one required we read it at my old school up in NY. I really enjoyed this book and its characters . It’s was a quick easy read as I thank it’s a Childrens book.

Winnie Foster is tired of being cooped up and pampered. She is the only child of the Fosters who live in the "touch me not" cottage at the edge of the small woods. At ten, Winnie wants to see the world. Winnie promises the toad sitting by her gate that tomorrow she will run away to the woods. The next day, Winnie makes good on her promise. As she traverses the small wood, she wonders why she has never bothered to explore them before. Suddenly, a small movement catches her eye. Winnie peers around a large tree and sees a handsome teenager drinking from a small spring. Winnie decides she wants a drink, but Jessie Tuck insists she not drink from that spring. Suddenly, Winnie is tossed on the back of a horse and kidnapped by the Tuck family. They have an unbelievable story to tell her about that small spring. Will Winne protect their secret? What I Loved: *Tuck Everlasting is the book that took hold of me and rooted in my soul when read it. I was ten years old when I first met Winnie and the Tucks. Over thirty years later, this small little book and its wonderful characters are still speaking to me. I adore this book! It is one that will always remain on my shelf. It is the book that stirred something inside of me and made me fall in love with gorgeous writing and simple story telling. This is a timeless book that should be read and loved by everyone. *The writing is absolutely lovely. It is filled with rich descriptions, beautiful metaphors and similes. It is the book that made me fall in love with gorgeous writing. *The characters are unforgettable. Just like Winnie, I quickly fell in love with the simplistic and kind Tucks. This wonderful little family who are either blessed or cursed to live forever got inside my head. At first, you think it would be wonderful to live forever, but when you hear the melancholy story of the Tucks, you pause and reconsider. There is something so endearing about the kind, sad Angus Tuck. Mae is sweet and motherly, the salt of the earth. Miles with his heartbreak makes me sad, and I truly hope that he finds a way to do something great. Jesse is the boy who stole my heart. I fell in love with this fun,spirited boy. Winnie at ten, is a girl who is wise beyond her years, and I admired her courage. I could go on and on, but I won't. Just read the book. *The story is simple and yet complex. Beautiful story telling that makes you think and ponder. I am still mulling over the book after all these years. I catch myself often during that first week of August wondering about the Tucks. It is the type of story that gets into your head, your heart and burrows into your soul and it never lets go. In my heart, I hope the Tucks are out there and that they have found their peace. And The Not So Much: *My only complaint is that the book is sweet and short and I crave more. I want to know what happened to Winnie after the fall out. How did her life turn out? Did she ever try to find the Tucks? Why did she make the decision she did regarding the water? I wish that there had been more on her. *I also was sad that in the final pages that there wasn't any mention of Miles and Jesse. How had they fared over all those years? What were they doing? Tuck Everlasting is the book from my childhood that still speaks to me all these years later. It is a magical, beautiful and haunting story about a girl who encounters a family with a big secret, a family either blessed or cursed with immortality. Leaving you to wonder what would you do if you could live forever? I urge you if you have not read this lovely little book to pick it up and do so. I have it forever on my shelf and I look forward to the day that I can read it to my children. I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own and I was not compensated for this review. Posted@Rainy Day Ramblings.