Tuck Everlasting (1975)

This one isn't at all what I was expecting. I love the world Babbitt creates. I wish I knew what an author does to immerse her readers in a setting because it's nothing dramatic; I'm just...there. Add to that the difficult grey-area choices Winnie faces and this was an excellent read. ( )

This story is about a girl who meets a family and learns of a spring, and if you drink from it, you have the ability to live forever. She is faced with a tough decision to drink the water, or let her life live out as planned. ( )

young Winnie Foster comes to know a family, the Tucks, who have been granted the seemingly enviable but actually burdensome miracle of immortality after unknowingly drinking from a magical spring in the further reaches of her family’s property. Saddled with a secret she must help to conceal as outsiders seek to profit off of the powerful elixir, Winnie learns that it is the fact of life’s ending that gives meaning to all of life. ( )

Really good book for middle school/early high school that brings up amazing themes for discussion ( )

A Classic ( )