Tired of her family, ten-year old Winnie Foster starts to
consider running away from home. One
day, during a walk in the woods, she meets a teenage boy named Jesse Tuck. Jesse and his family lead her deeper into
her family’s land, where a magical spring puts forth water which has granted
them eternal life. As Winnie begins to find
herself falling in love with Jessie, she becomes sorely tempted to drink the
water herself. All the while, a
mysterious stranger from the Tucks’ past is following, offering a temptation of
an entirely different sort…
This book was written in 1975 and I originally read it as
part of a grade school curriculum, but I was amazed to find that the story is
just as good today. The theme is very
thought provoking: would eternal life be
a blessing, or a curse? “Tuck Everlasting” is a suspenseful page-turner,
and well worth the time that any young man would spend reading it.
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