Many years later, a young girl named Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret. In the late 1700's, they drink from a spring of water in a forest that turns out to be a sort of fountain of youth: it makes them immortal, unable to die and permanently stuck at the age they were when they drank from the spring. The Tuck family, a husband, wife and two sons ages 17 and 22, are simple, salt-of-the-earth folk. The toad, in its own small way, will be significant later on. I still see a ten year old girl telling her troubles to a toad. I first read Tuck about 10 or 15 years ago and, even though it's a middle grade book, it has stuck with me all these years. (Thinking about this now, I kind of feel guilty about it, like I need to go give her some better books.) So I hung onto these few keepers and found a neighbor with a young daughter who was interested in taking the rest of the books off my hands. I was so disappointed.īut there were a handful of more interesting books scattered among the rest, and one of those was Tuck Everlasting. I have NO idea where my MIL got them from, or why. dozens of Sweet Valley High and Babysitters Club books. When I got home and opened the boxes, I found. With visions of a literary treasure trove in my head, I quickly offered to take them off her hands so I could keep what I liked and dispose of the rest. She mentioned, as we were leaving, that she had two boxes of books that she was going to get rid of. One day I was visiting my mother-in-law, a former high school English teacher.
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