Tuck everlasting
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing older.
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Immortalism > Juvenile fiction. Aging > Juvenile fiction. Secrecy > Juvenile fiction. |
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- ISBN: 9780312369811
- ISBN: 0312369816
- Physical Description 148 pages
- Edition 1st Square Fish ed.
- Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
- Copyright ©1975
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General Note: | "Square Fish." |
Target Audience Note: | "010-up"--P. [4] of cover. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 7.99 |
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The Horn Book Review
Tuck Everlasting
The Horn Book
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This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the modern classic includes an interview with the author conducted by Betsy Hearne (for an excerpt, see the March/April 2000 [cf2]Horn Book Magazine[cf1]). (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Tuck Everlasting
Kirkus Reviews
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At a time when death has become an acceptable, even voguish subject in children's fiction, Natalie Babbitt comes through with a stylistic gem about living forever. Protected Winnie, the ten-year-old heroine, is not immortal, but when she comes upon young Jesse Tuck drinking from a secret spring in her parents' woods, she finds herself involved with a family who, having innocently drunk the same water some 87 years earlier, haven't aged a moment since. Though the mood is delicate, there is no lack of action, with the Tucks (previously suspected of witchcraft) now pursued for kidnapping Winnie; Mae Tuck, the middle aged mother, striking and killing a stranger who is onto their secret and would sell the water; and Winnie taking Mae's place in prison so that the Tucks can get away before she is hanged from the neck until. . . ? Though Babbitt makes the family a sad one, most of their reasons for discontent are circumstantial and there isn't a great deal of wisdom to be gleaned from their fate or Winnie's decision not to share it. However the compelling fitness of theme and event and the apt but unexpected imagery (the opening sentences compare the first week in August when this takes place to ""the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning"") help to justify the extravagant early assertion that had the secret about to be revealed been known at the time of the action, the very earth ""would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.