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Summary Of Tuck Everlasting
The book I read was Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt. It all starts in the first week of August when three things happen on the same day. The first one was that Mea Tuck was coming to Treegap wood, woods which were owned by the Foster family. The second event was when the man with the yellow suit knocked on the Foster's home. The third one was when Winne Foster decided to run away. Winnie Foster was tired of her family's strictness and wanted to run away and live in her life in complete freedom. She decided to run away on the dawn of the next day.
The Tuck family were a family that lived not far away from the woods, and the day Winnie ran away, Mae Tuck went to meet her two sons, Jesse and Miles, for she hadn't seen them for about ten years. The chance is that Mae was going to meet them in the Treegap woods. The man with the yellow suit knocked on the Foster's house, but Winnie’s grandma refused to talk to him or let him in. As Winnie ran away, she goes deeper into the woods
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He told them that his grandma had known a family who had a husband that never seemed to grow up and his wife thought he was a witch and left him. This husband is Miles, and the man in the yellow suit was determined to know about that family since then. When the man was grabbing Winnie by force, Mae had no choice but to shoot him with a gun.
Unfortunately, the constable witnessed the incidence and took Mae and Winnie with him: Mae to be locked up and Winnie to return home. If the man died, Mae was to be killed by the gallows. The man died. But the Tucks and Winnie knew that Mae wasn't going to be killed and their story will be heard by the whole world. They had to save Mae. When Winnie returned home, Jesse went to meet her and tell her goodbye. He gave her a bottle of the spring water and asked her to drink it when she becomes seventeen like him so they could

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