Tuck Everlasting
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Tuck Everlasting
Babbitt, Natalie
Readability: 7
Setting: Winnie Foster's Farm - Treegap
Main Character: Winnie, Mae Tuck, Pa Tuck, the boys

"When they came to the part that was now the wood, and turned from the trail to find a camping place, they happened on the spring. "It was real nice," said Jesse with a sigh. "It looked just the way it does now. A clearing, lots of sunshine, that big tree with all those knobby roots. We stopped and everyone took a drink, even the horse."

Jesse fell out of a tree, "We thought for sure he broke his neck. But come to find out it didn't hurt him a bit."

"Some hunters come by one day at sunset. The horse was out grazing by some trees and they shot him. Mistook him for a deer, they said. Can you fancy that? But the thing is, they didn't kill him. The bullet went right on through him, and didn't hardly even leave a mark."

But it was the passage of time that worried them most. None of them were getting any older.

Match the number with the with!

Vocabulary Choices
1. Winnie 2. Mae 3. Tuck
4. Miles 5. Jesse 6. the wood
7. kidnapped 8. pasture 9. ten
10. music box 11. the man in the yellow suit 12. Treegap
13. the constable 14. toad 15. seventeen
16. wood carvings 17. horse 18. cat
19. 1880 20. 1950 21. Winnie's grandmother
22. the Fosters 23. electrical storm 24. witchcraft
25. mouse 26. wheel 27. cows
28. shotgun

Questions

1. Tuck referred to her as "a natural growing child."


2. Tuck made money selling these.


3. The owner of the wood.


4. Tuck's wife.


5. This animal did not drink from the spring and died a natural death.


6. Winnie insisted the Tucks had not done this to her.


7. Where the ashe tree and spring were located.


8. Winnie fell in love with him at first sight.


9. He felt the life he and his family had was useless.


10. The animal, owned by the Tucks, that was immortal.


11. The year most of the story took place.


12. He discovered the Tuck's secret.


13. It belonged to Mae and she never went anywhere without it.


14. He lost his wife and children because he didn't age.


15. Jesse was this age when he drank from the spring..


16. She had heard music from the wood once more.


17. The village where Winnie lived.


18. The Tuck's neighbors thought they didn't age because of this.


19. The had formed the original trial that had skirted the wood.


20. Winnie was this age when she met the Tucks.


21. Mae used this to kill the man in the yellow suit.


22. He forced the Fosters into selling the wood to him.


23. He brought Winnie home and put Mae in Jail.


24. Tuck compared the cycle of life to one of these.


25. Winnie poured water from the spring on this animal.


26. She took Mae's place in the jail cell.


27. He planned to sell water from the spring


28. She accepted her families situation and didn't question why it had happened to them.


29. He thought the spring was left over from a plan for the world that didn't work out.


30. Mae had one of these living in her house.


31. The year the Tucks came back to Treegap looking for Winnie.


32. The wood was destroyed by one of these.


33. She grew up, got married, had children, and died.

Your score is out of 33