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The Book Of Tuck Everlasting By Natalie Babbitt

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Tuck Everlasting Tuck Everlasting is a book written by Natalie Babbitt. The story begins in August in a place called Treegap with an 11-year-old girl named Winifred Foster Winnie for short whose parents are very strict, a man in a yellow suit who seems very odd, and the Tuck family who are immortal and finds out it’s not very fun living forever, their names are Angus, Mae, Miles, and Jesse. In the book, Winnie is sick of being treated like a baby so she decides to run away. She goes to the wood where she finds a water fountain and 17-year-old Jesse Tuck drinking from it she instantly falls in love with him. She wants to drink from the water fountain but Jesse wouldn’t let her so he kidnaps her and takes her to Angus and Mae's house where the Tuck family tells Winnie that if she drinks from the fountain she will become immortal like them. Before Winnie ran away the man in the yellow suit stopped and talked to Winnie asking her if she knew of a family that lives in the wood. Turns out that the family he was looking for was the Tucks. Anyways the man in the yellow suit was watching Winnie the whole time and knew where she was while her parents had no idea so, the man in the yellow suit goes and tells Winnie's parents that if they give him the wood that he will go get Winnie and they did. The man in the yellow suit goes to get Winnie with the constable. When they got to the Tuck’s house the man in the yellow suit tries to take Winnie but Mae refuses to let him take her. He tries to take her so, Mae hits him in the back of the head with a shotgun at that time the constable shows up. The man in the yellow suit dies, Mae goes to jail, and Winnie makes it home safely. Later that day Jesse goes to Winnie’s house and takes her a small bottle of water from the fountain for her to drink when she turns 17 he also asks her a favor. His favor was for her to sneak out and go to the jail and take Mae’s spot she agrees and says she’ll do it. At 12 o'clock Winnie sneaks out and goes to the jail. When she gets there she goes through the window and covers herself up with a blanket and takes Maes spot. Then the Tucks leave Treegap. After that, the book fast forwards and Jesse comes back looking for Winnie but

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