Author: Natalie Babbitt
Summary: Tuck Everlasting is a story about a young girl named Winifred, Winnie, Foster who has grown up in a wealthy family in the 1940s. She is the only child of her parents and their well manicured lawn is bordered by a tall fence that Winnie feels like she is trapped inside.Winnie runs away from her stifling parents by going into the woods her family owns that she has never visited. Once there, Winnie happens across a boy who is a bit older than her that is drinking from a spring by a tree. The boy, Jesse, blocks Winnie's attempts to get some of the water as well, which the readers later find out to be a special spring of water for eternal life. Jesse brings Winnie back to his family, who lives out in the woods, to protect their secret lifestyle, that is, that they will never die. Winnie begins to grow close to the Tuck family but trouble comes when a man in a yellow suit is determined to tell the town that the Tucks have kidnapped Winnie. The man in the yellow suit only cares for the water in the spring and is later killed by Mae Tuck, who ends up in the town's jail. Mae escapes her hanging the night before she is due to die with the help of the Tuck boys and Winnie. The Tucks leave town and when they finally come back, find out that Winnie chose to live life rather than drink the spring water and she dies before they return.
Lesson: I would have my students read this book in small groups of about five or so students, each student having their own book. They would be assigned to read a certain amount of pages a day for homework along with thinking of discussion questions and thoughts that they can share the next day while they are in their groups.
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