The book I read was Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. This book was about a girl named Winnie Foster who is just an ordinary curious girl that belongs to really wealthy parents. Her wealthy family owns a forest right acrossed the street from their house that has a mysterious fountain of youth that only the Tucks know about bc they accidentally drank from it. One day Winnie decides to leave her boring house and go on an adventure into the forest, but when she does she sees this stream and goes to drink from it but Jessie (one of the Tucks sons) grabs her and kidnaps her. They take her back to their home far out in the valley and help her understand why they took her and why she shouldn’t drink from the stream. Winnie then begins to like them after living with them after a few weeks meanwhile people back at her town are looking for her. Then the man in the yellow suit finally figures out where she is at and go to the Tuck’s house to get her back. They return her back to her family and move out to live somewhere else. Although Jesse and Winnie …show more content…
The setting of the book is in an old town with a forest right it the middle of it. With dusty roads and boring looking houses. The Tuck’s place is far away this place and their home is surrounded by valley with a lake by their house. My favorite quote from the book is “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life ( pg. 162). I like it so much because it can tells people to stop being afraid of death and other little things and to live life to the fullest before you do actual die and to enjoy and love your life while you can. The story is written from Winnie’s point of view. She tells the story as if it is really happening in real life. Because the readers are reading it from Winnie’s point of view the readers can understand and know Winnie’s