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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm shes 11 and hes 17 but really hes older.
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
Harcourt, 1975
Summary: One hot summer day, Winifred “Winnie” Foster goes for a walk in the wood owned by her family. On her walk, she encounters a young boy named Jesse Tuck who is drinking from a spring. Winnie asks for a drink from the spring, a request that Jesse vehemently denies, and she soon finds herself kidnapped by the Tuck family. That night at the Tuck cottage, the family explains why they took her away: the spring Winnie saw produces water that grants its drinker eternal life, and the Tucks accidentally drank from it one day nearly two hundred years ago. They haven’t aged a day since then. The Tucks live in fear of the spring getting discovered, and so they kidnapped Winnie in order to impart the importance of its secrecy to her. As it turns out, their fears are well founded; a shyster known only as “the man in the yellow suit” has discovered the stream as well, and is determined to capitalize on the spring by selling the water.
Genre: Modern Fantasy.
Content Warnings: Character death/murder, mentions of execution, anti-authority.
My Opinion: This book was interesting to me because of the fact that its “good” characters do not always do good things. For example, the Tucks kidnapping Winnie is a pretty dark and villainous move, and yet because of their motivations and the people they are, their actions are sympathetic. In terms of the story’s true villain, the man in the yellow suit, Natalie Babbitt does a great job in making him frightening because he’s so mysterious. He’s never even given a name – he is simply “the man in the yellow suit.” The ending poses an interesting philosophical question – is it better to live forever in a state of complete stasis, never aging or getting sick or wounded while life moves on around you, or is it better to move along with life’s current and accept the changes, pains, and eventual death that that choice implies? This is a very “grown up” thing to ponder, but the novel does a good job of presenting it in a way that kids will a) understand and b) think deeply about.
Natalie Babbitt
Harcourt, 1975
Summary: One hot summer day, Winifred “Winnie” Foster goes for a walk in the wood owned by her family. On her walk, she encounters a young boy named Jesse Tuck who is drinking from a spring. Winnie asks for a drink from the spring, a request that Jesse vehemently denies, and she soon finds herself kidnapped by the Tuck family. That night at the Tuck cottage, the family explains why they took her away: the spring Winnie saw produces water that grants its drinker eternal life, and the Tucks accidentally drank from it one day nearly two hundred years ago. They haven’t aged a day since then. The Tucks live in fear of the spring getting discovered, and so they kidnapped Winnie in order to impart the importance of its secrecy to her. As it turns out, their fears are well founded; a shyster known only as “the man in the yellow suit” has discovered the stream as well, and is determined to capitalize on the spring by selling the water.
Genre: Modern Fantasy.
Content Warnings: Character death/murder, mentions of execution, anti-authority.
My Opinion: This book was interesting to me because of the fact that its “good” characters do not always do good things. For example, the Tucks kidnapping Winnie is a pretty dark and villainous move, and yet because of their motivations and the people they are, their actions are sympathetic. In terms of the story’s true villain, the man in the yellow suit, Natalie Babbitt does a great job in making him frightening because he’s so mysterious. He’s never even given a name – he is simply “the man in the yellow suit.” The ending poses an interesting philosophical question – is it better to live forever in a state of complete stasis, never aging or getting sick or wounded while life moves on around you, or is it better to move along with life’s current and accept the changes, pains, and eventual death that that choice implies? This is a very “grown up” thing to ponder, but the novel does a good job of presenting it in a way that kids will a) understand and b) think deeply about.
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This for me is one of my favorite books. I actually have a copy put a way just to have a hard copy. This is a book that brings up the theory of the fountain of youth. A young girl has to decide will she take a drink or will she live her life?
adventurous
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes