Tuck Everlasting By: Natalie Babbitt

Summary Winney decides to run away from home and wanders into the forest. While Winney was in the forest she spots a boy named Jesse Tuck drinking from a secret stream. When Winney asks Jesse how old he is, he states that he is 109, but Winney does not believe him. Winney begs Jesse to let her drink from the secret stream too, but he does not allow her. Jesse does not know how to explain to Winney why she cannot drink from the stream, so he is relieved when he hears his mother, Mae Tuck, and his brother, Miles Tuck, coming towards them.

Summary The Tucks decide to kidnap Winney, so they can bring her to their house to see Mae’s husband, Angus Tuck. They believed Angus could best explain to Winnie why she should not drink the water from the secret stream or tell anyone else about it. On the way to the Tuck’s house, Jesse, Miles and Mae decide to tell Winney how they found the secret stream 87 years ago and how after they drank from it they never aged. While Mae, Jesse and Miles tell Winney their story, they do not realize that the man in the yellow suit is hiding in the bushes and listening in on what they are saying.

Summary When they arrive at the house, Angus Tuck is very excited to meet Winney. He wants Winney to understand that if she drank from the secret stream she would stay ten years old for the rest of her life and she would not be able to enjoy everything great that accompanies getting older. At the Tuck’s, Winney is loved and cared for, but she still becomes homesick. Winnie even develops a crush on Jesse. The man in the yellow suit finds Winney’s family and tell them that he knows where Winney is. The man in the yellow suit brings a policeman with him to go find Winney.

Summary When the man in the yellow suit arrives at the Tuck’s home he tells the family that he is going to tell everyone about the secret stream. Mae becomes mad when the man in the yellow suit tells them his plans, so she hits him. Just as she does so, the constable enters the Tuck’s house. The constable sees what happen and arrests Mae for hurting the man in the yellow suit. Jesse, Miles, Winney and Angus help Mae escape from jail. The Tuck family runs far away in hopes that the police and the man in the yellow suit will never find Mae. Mae and her husband return many years later and find out that the forest and special stream have been destroyed.

Meaning of Icons Winney Angus Tuck Man in the Yellow Suit Jesse Tuck (Jesse’s Dad) Man in the Yellow Suit Jesse Tuck Miles Tuck (Jesse’s brother) Mae Tuck (Jesse’s Mom)

Picture Icons Drinking Secret Stream Home Forest Said Walk Destroyed

Picture Icons Continued… Jail Away Policeman Earth Bad Years Old

Picture Icons Continued… No Winney’s Family Old Kidnap Home Sick Love

Picture Icons Continued… Heard Die Hide Behind Good Trees Where

Chapter 1 Winney ran away from home to the forest. Winney found Jesse drinking from the secret stream.

Chapter 2 Jessie said he is 109 years old. Winney does not believe Jesse.

Chapter 3 Winney wants to drink from the secret stream. Jesse says no.

Chapter 4 Miles and Mae walk to the secret stream. They kidnap Winney and take her to their house.

Chapter 5 Jesse, Miles and Mae say they will never die because they drank from the secret stream.

Chapter 6 The man in the yellow suit was hiding behind the trees and heard what Mae said.

Chapter 7 At the house, Angus says Winney can not drink from the secret stream.

Chapter 8 Angus says it bad to stay the same age and it is good to get old.

Chapter 9 At Mae’s house Winney is loved, but she gets homesick.

Chapter 10 Winney falls in love with Jesse.

Chapter 11 Man in the yellow suit told Winney’s family he knew where her kidnappers took her.

Chapter 12 Man in the yellow suit and a police man walked to Mae’s house to get Winney.

Chapter 13 Mae hits man in the yellow suit. He wants to tell the world about the secret stream.

Chapter 14 The policeman arrests Mae for hitting the man in the yellow suit.

Chapter 15 Winney, Jesse, Miles and Angus help Mae escape from jail.

Ending Many years later, Angus and Mae walked back to the secret stream and it was destroyed.