Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt is a great american story of a girl who dreams of leaving the normal. She takes a risk a enters her family forest leaving the safety of the fenced yard. Suddenly Winnie comes across an old tree with a stream next to it and a boy drinking from it. The boy is skeptical about Winnie as she has come across something special upon that tree. She meets the boy's family and learns of their ways and secret. However,  they are all in terrible danger as a stranger searches for both the family of Tucks and Winnie to uncover the secret within the wood.

This great fantasy novel has gained awards due to its theme, setting, characterization, style, and more.    There are various themes as living forever, dying, living life to the fullest, good vs. evil and more.  Each character plays a key role in the plot with the man in the yellow suite as the villain, Winnie Foster as the heroine, and the Tucks as devil advocates in their own ways. The motif of the novel was the chances for change through the turmoils while keeping ones commitments. All this and other attributes allowed this book to be award winning and desirable for education curriculums.