By: Natalie Babbitt

Rate: good

Tuck Everlasting is a nice book. It takes place some time ago, with the Tuck family. They accidentally drank water from an everlasting spring, and now they live forever and cannot kill themselves. Winnie is a girl who meets the Tucks and discovers their secret, and is astonished. Jess Tuck, who falls in love with Winnie, gives her a bottle of the spring water and tells her to drink it if she wants to marry him. Miles, another Tuck, explains to Winnie that life is like a spinning wheel, dying and being born, while the Tucks kind of fell off the wheel, which is not good. When Mae Tuck accidentally kills a man who wants to tell their secret to the rest of the world, she is sent to prison and is about to be hanged. Winnie knows that Mae must not be hung, or else people will know that she lives forever. She pretends to be Mae and lets her escape. Yet at the end, Winnie does not drink the spring water. I like this book that explains that living forever is perhaps not as awesome as we think so.