Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - Did You Ever Wonder What It Would Be like to Have Everlasting Life?

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to have everlasting life? If so, then

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt would be an excellent book to read. Will everlasting life be what you think it will be? Do not get me wrong to never have to worry about dying would be great. On the other hand everlasting life can have sadness and many challenges. I will show you both some rewards and difficulties with having eternal life.

Tuck Everlasting is a book about a family; Mae, Angus (otherwise know as Tuck), Miles, and Jesse Tuck in fictional Treegap. The Tucks discover magical water under a strange looking tree. After they drink this water, they soon find their bodies have undergone changes and they also are not getting any older. Through the years they discover that everlasting life is not what they thought it would be in the beginning.

The story of the Tucks begins with them searching for a place to live and discovering a spring of fresh water. They had been walking for days and only drank from the spring because they were thirsty. The water had a strange taste, but they drank it anyway. All of them including the horse drank, the only one from the group that did not was a cat. Little did they know this spring contained a magical water. Before they left Angus carved a "T" into the strange tree to mark where they had been. After they had found a new place to live and build their homes to the west of Treegap, they would soon discover their bodies were undergoing changes. Their first notice was when Jesse fell out of a tree onto his head and was not hurt. All of them thought for sure he had broken his neck. Next some hunters shot their horse and the bullet went right though and hardly left a mark. Through the years various accidents occurred and help them realize something was different. In addition to the accidents the Tucks realized through the years that as their friends aged they did not. Miles married and had children and after several years his wife left and took the children. She was convinced he had sold his soul to the devil. Due to their ability to not age they had to move from their farm, because their friends thought they were into witchcraft. Upon leaving the farm they headed towards Treegap and came upon the tree they had discovered many years before. They knew this because the "T" was still there and unchanged. Angus wanted to be sure they had everlasting life; so he took a gun and aimed it at his heart. The shot knocked him down, but went right through him as it had with the horse before. After this they went a little crazy, realizing for the first time they really had everlasting life. They then sat down and talked on what this really meant. They decided that this secret should only be known by them.

Years later a little girl named Winnie Foster came into their lives. She had tried to run away from home by running into the woods. There she saw a young man sitting by a tree