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    Tuck Everlasting
    Tuck Everlasting
    Tuck Everlasting
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    Tuck Everlasting

    By Natalie Babbitt

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    The beloved children’s classic with more than more than 10 million copies sold.

    From Newbery Honor and E. B. White Award–winning author Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting is a spellbinding modern-day masterpiece about immortality, friendship, and growing up that’s sure to become an all-time favorite for every generation.

    Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older. But then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tucks’ secret—and whether or not to join them on their never-ending journey.

    A staple on home bookshelves and in classrooms and libraries, Tuck Everlasting is a timeless story that has captivated readers of all ages for almost half a century.

    Praise for Tuck Everlasting:

    “Probably the best work of our best children's novelist.” —Harper's

    “Exciting and excellently written.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “A fearsome and beautifully written book that can't be put down or forgotten.” —The New Yorker

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 17, 2010
    ISBN9780374706449
    Tuck Everlasting
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    Natalie Babbitt

    Artist and writer Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) is the award-winning author of the modern classic Tuck Everlasting and many other brilliantly original books for young people. As the mother of three small children, she began her career in 1966 by illustrating The Forty-Ninth Magician, written by her husband, Samuel Babbitt. She soon tried her own hand at writing, publishing two picture books in verse. Her first novel, The Search for Delicious, was published in 1969 and established her reputation for creating magical tales with profound meaning. Kneeknock Rise earned Babbitt a Newbery Honor in 1971, and she went on to write—and often illustrate—many more picture books, story collections, and novels. She also illustrated the five volumes in the Small Poems series by Valerie Worth. In 2002, Tuck Everlasting was adapted into a major motion picture, and in 2016 a musical version premiered on Broadway. Born and raised in Ohio, Natalie Babbitt lived her adult life in the Northeast.

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    • 3/5
      It was ok, I have been pretending that I was going to read this book for years so I figured this would be a good time. I liked it enough to finish it, but I don't know if I'd recomend it to anyone. A nice idea though.
    • 5/5
      I've seen the movie that came out a few years ago, and I thought I'd read the book as a child, but I was imagining a totally different ending. Regardless, I absolutely loved this book. The writing was so beautiful - I re-read the first page several times over because the sentences were perfection. The idea is also really unique - a family drinks from an innocent-looking spring only to find the water basically froze them in time. They never age, and nothing can kill them - which is both a blessing and a curse. When Winnie stumbles across the family, she's swept in by them and their magical lives. Really makes you ponder if you'd drink from that spring or not.
    • 4/5
      Heartwarming and depressing all at once.
    • 4/5
      Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit is a fantasy book. In the story, a young girl named Winnie Foster is very sheltered child. One day she decides to go against the rules and go into the woods outside her house. While there she sees a boy drinking from a stream. She too starts to drink, but the boy, Jesse Tuck, stops her. He takes her to meet his family, and she stays with them a few days. While there she learns that the family is immortal because they drank from the stream. A man who had been following them, comes to get Winnie but the Tucks feel like he is trying to kidnap her; Mae Tuck hits him with a gun and he dies. Mae is taken into custody and is supposed to be hanged, but because she is immortal, if the town tries to hang her her secret will be revealed. The Tucks break her out of jail and Jesse gives Winnie some of the water to drink when she is a little older if she wants.This was definitely an interesting book. It did have a good story line, but at times I felt it was rushed. It was a sweet book with just a little bit of a love story in it. I would have students write a paper on whether they would like to be immortal. I would also have them write a newspaper article about the jailbreak.
    • 5/5
      One of the few books where I did not like the ending but still loved the book.

      This book is one of my favorites, loving the realistic-fantasy tone of it. It is both heartbreaking and uplifting, which when you're in sixth grade, you don't understand - you just see it as an amazing book.

      A very quick read, this one is a fantastic one read aloud.
    • 4/5
      The quiet spare text of this story of Winnie and her relationship with the Tuck family offers an abundance of philosophical questions about life and death for students to consider. Originally rated this a three, but having gone back and re-read it this summer--2012-- I'm appreciating the richness of the conversations that Babbitt's writing opens up.
    • 4/5
      It has been awhile since I read the book but I did enjoy it. I read it so that I could see the movie. Very heart warming story.
    • 5/5
      This book was about a family whos parents died in a car crash but all of the kids were still okay. It was a good book.
    • 4/5
      Tuck Everlasting is yet another one of those childhood classics that I failed to read as a child, nor did I watch the movie. Still, I'd heard enough general discussions about the book to have a high level feel for what to expect.Diving right into the story, I was quickly sucked in by the simple and yet vivid language used to describe the world and the actions. The writing is definitely aimed towards younger readers and the voice and tone of the novel are certainly tailored specifically for kids. However, the text doesn't 'talk down' to young readers. Nor does it explicitly try to preach or admonish the youthful audience.Instead, we engage with the story through the eyes, voice and attitudes of a pre-teen girl, Winnie Foster. She has a fresh and innocent outlook on the world but at the same time she's a little jaded about her own existence, living almost as a prisoner, locked within her own home and forbidden to go outside the gate (except for school, church, etc). She has no friends to speak of and expresses frustration at the attitudes of her family.I love the way the story opens up with a prologue explaining that we are about to see three seemingly unrelated events which will change the course of life for the individuals involved. It's an odd opening that is both exciting and foreboding at the same time. As those three events unfold, I especially love the thoughts racing through Winnie's mind as she's excited, then scared, then happy, then anxious, and so on.The story is very simple and is a very quick read. And yet, it's a book with great staying power as a classic and one that kids and adults keep coming back to. The writing and the story in themselves are enjoyable but I think what really makes this book maintain its popularity and appeal are the conversations it opens with the reader.It poses questions about love, family, freedom, choices and the nature of mortality. It leaves you thinking about the nature of life and the idea of a "life well lived."I'm glad I finally got around to reading this book. It's an uplifting and light hearted book with added depth in the profound questions and messages it presents. If, like me, you skipped over this book, you should go back and give it a try.****4 out of 5 stars
    • 5/5
      beautiful story of a young girl learning how to grow up and how to love.  
    • 4/5
      Good book- fountain of youth, and the impact that staying young forever could really have.
    • 5/5
      Winnie Foster is always locked up in her house. One day, she runs away and sees a tree which springs water. A young man, Jesse Tuck, is drinking from it. Winnie leans to drink, however he stops her. Jesse's brother and mother appear, and take Winnie with them. They tell her their biggest secret: the spring has the ability to give eternal life. Subsequently, Winnie learns about the circle of life, friendship and love. She falls in love with Jesse.

      On the other side, a man in a yellow suit has been investigating them and wanted the spring so badly. He takes Winnie as a hostage so they can show him the spring. The mother of Jesse hit his head and he died. She is sent to gallows and escapes it thereafter. The Tucks bid farewell. Jesse left her a bottle of spring water to drink, and promised that he will come back for her.

      The Tucks return to Treegap and discovered that Winnie had chosen life with death rather than life eternal as they found her headstone. The woods have been demolished and new buildings and roads have been built. They feel terribly sad and continue to travel.

      I hate how this is being compared to Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.
      Winnie choose to be mortal whilst Bella choose to be immortal.
      C'mon, a girl is smarter than a grown up woman. If someone would defend Bella for being in love, I will tell you that Winnie was also in love. She, however, choose to be mortal and live life as how it should be. If some may say that she is young and not in love, then I would ask how do you know if she is not? And if she was not in love, she still made the best decision. Why does a girl needs a guy to have a happy ending? The main point here is that you don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
    • 3/5
      The book is about three different lives that come together in an odd way. Winnie Foster’s family owns the woods by their cottage. Winnie is stuck between leaving home to find something she can call hers or do something to make a difference. Mae Tuck is going to meet her boys like she does every ten years for the past 87 years. The man in yellow is searching for something that his grandmother told him about 20 years ago. While exploring the woods Winnie comes across a boy by a big tree drinking from a spring in the ground. When they meet Jesse tries to convince Winnie not to drink from the spring and Mae has to take Winnie away to explain their story. On their way back to the Tuck’s they cross the path of the man in yellow. The man in yellow follows the Tuck’s and Winnie back and hears everything. While away Winnie falls in love with the family, they are hers. In exchange for Winnie’s whereabouts the man in yellows buys the land from the Fosters so he can own the spring. When the man in yellow comes back to retrieve Winnie from the Tucks, Mae kills the man and is sent to the gallows. Winnie understands the importance of keeping the spring a secret and knows that Mae cannot go to the gallows because she cannot die and the secret will be reviled. Winnie makes a difference by exchanging places with Mae in the Jail house and gives the Tucks time to escape.I enjoyed this book the and how everything came together at the end. I really thought when Winnie turned 17 she would drink the water and be with Jesse, I was wrong! The man in yellow really made me mad; everything would have been just fine if it wasn’t for him!! I loved the characters and the adventure. In the classroom the students can write a short story about what decision they would have made; drink the water or not drink the water and why. Another idea would have the student draw a picture of one of the characters in the way the book described them.
    • 4/5
      A young girl struggles with the concept of immortality when she stumbles across a family that inadvertently found the key to everlasting life. Winnie's struggle becomes even more challenging when she falls in love with one of the sons of the family, forcing her to choose between endless life with him or a mortal life without him.
    • 3/5
      I have read this book a few times, it is an easy, quick read but I love it! It tells a story about a family that will live forever because of some spring/well water they drank. They find out that their secret has been seen by a girl, so they take her back to live with them for a little while. Her world is basically turned upside down with adventure, and she ends up falling in love with the family. One of the sons gives her a chance to live forever with them, and she has to decide if she wants that life or not.
    • 5/5
      The ending made me weep like a small child. This is the first book that ever made me cry like that. Amazing storytelling!
    • 5/5
      Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt is one of those children's books (from a long list, sadly) that I missed reading in my childhood.Out in the countryside there's a family that owns a spring as part of their rural acreage. They haven't seen any use for it or figured it had any value, so they've let it be and ignored it for decades.Things change though when their daughter follows an unusual melody from a music box. It leads her to the Tucks, a family blessed (or cursed) by her family's over looked spring.Afraid of what the girl's reaction will be to their BIG secret, they kidnap her. Much of this short book is the Tucks' long backstory and the girl's growing acceptance of them.Tuck Everlasting wasn't what I expected (dreaded). Since the most recent film adaptation my husband has been bemoaning his experiencing of having to read it in elementary school. Then our so read it in school and LOVED it and insisted that I read it. Turns out, I agree with my son. It is very good.It asks a lot of questions about life, death, immortality and morality. And it has a nice surprise ending.
    • 4/5
      Thought Provoking Read!!!A beautiful tale for the young and old alike. Admittedly, the beginning was a slow start but the descriptions of the scenes were beautifully described in an enchanting way that pulls you in and keeps you until the very end. So many topics, besides immortality, can be discussed after reading the book. It's a perfect read for all ages not just for its intended audience.
    • 3/5
      This book is about a girl her name is Winnie. she met these people and they were way different and there was something weird about them but she didn't know what. until the middle of the book.
    • 4/5
      I love this book, and have loved it since I was young and read it. The main idea of this story is to see what you would do for love: would you live forever to be with the person you love? I like this book because of the character development of Winnie. At the beginning, she is naive and is running away because she is quite honestly bored. However, in meeting Jesse and spending time with the rest of the Tuck family, she matures and discovers that there can be many hardships in life. She shows her final maturation and complete character development when she takes Mae's place in jail, and in choosing to not drink the water. I also like this book because it addresses a controversial question: if able to live forever, would you? The author writes in a way that glamorizes as well as diminishes it, showing the pros and cons, and therefore lets the reader choose what their opinion is on the subject.
    • 4/5
      “Tuck Everlasting” is the story of a young girl who finds herself witnessing a young man drinking from a spring of water that makes you live forever. The young man kidnaps the girl and takes her to meet his family in hopes that after hearing the story of their everlasting life, she will keep their secret. The message of this book is to enjoy every moment of your life and realize that it is a cycle that is not meant to go on forever. One way the author gets this message across is in the beginning of the story by comparing life to a ferris wheel. She states that everything is a cycle that is constantly turning and changing but eventually it needs to come to an end. This foreshadows what the rest of the book will be about and starts getting the reader thinking about events to come in the book. It also even almost gives away the ending in a sense. Another way the author gets this message across is by using the girls, Winnie, personal thoughts about everlasting life and her chance at it. At first she is very young and wants to drink the water and live forever. But in the end she chooses not to drink it because she has realized that life is not meant to go on forever. This was a dramatic ending that wasn't the fairy tale ending most books have. However, it greatly added to the story and gave the book its meaning. This book is a great read that constantly had me thinking about what I would do if I were in Winnie's situation. It constantly keeps the reader thinking and wondering even long after they've put the book down.
    • 4/5
      I love the way Tuck Everlasting handle's mortality. It makes the reader ponder their life and the natural circle of life. I feel this book does a great job of selecting a strong theme and teaching a moral lesson without bashing it over the reader's head. The character development along with the conflict/resolution in this book is extremely strong. If I was teaching a high school litature class I would include this on my class booklist. The book discussions would be fascinating.
    • 5/5
      This book is about a girl she runs away meets this boy has drinking water and tells her not to drink it.
    • 4/5
      Truly a wonderful story. We fell in love with the Tucks just as Winnie did; the writing is truly superb and makes you wish she had written several epic adult novels.
    • 2/5
      As a whole Tuck Everlasting was just ok book. When I first heard about this book I thought that I was going to really enjoy it. The concept is very interesting and the decision that Winnie has to make I the end Is a really interesting decision with a lot of really good points that could be made either way. While I was very excited to read the book, when I actually did I often found that I was bored. The beginning was really hard to actually start and get into. The author begins by describing the setting and while that is an important part of the story, there where several different ways that the author could have begun the story to really make sure that she was capturing her reader. As the story progress I thought that there would be more action and a lot more romance between Winnie and Jesse. There was really neither. I often found myself struggling to stay focused on the story and what was going on. The book needed more action. It was mostly one long story about the Tuck’s life. The book needed to pick either the love between Winnie and Jesse, or the relationship between the family and make that the focus. I believe that they tried to showcase both of those things, but didn’t give either enough. This story had a lot of different themes in it. I think that the main theme though was choice. The author was trying to show the reader that in the end we have the ability to choose our own life. This is shown when Winnie decides not to drink the water. She chooses to have a better life by living it out as she should.
    • 5/5
      I liked the book, Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt. The big idea in this story is a secret water spring that keeps people from aging. The author keeps the suspense of her audience by with- holding information about the man with the yellow suit. He seems mysterious and is unnamed. He appears spooky, “His tall body moved continuously; a foot tapped, a shoulder twitched. And it moved in angles, rather jerkily. But at the same time he had a kind of grace, like a well-handled marionette. Indeed, he seemed almost to hang suspended there in the twilight.” He also was described by the author as a creepy madman when he came to take Winnie from the Tucks, “His eyes were like blind fire points and his face was twisted.” The author also created a relationship between Winnie and Jesse that was a special one. Winnie seems immediately have a crush on Jesse, one the Tucks. She describes him, “he seemed so glorious to Winnie that she lost her heart at once.” When Winnie took Jesse’s hand to say hello, she thought, “He was even more beautiful in person.”
    • 5/5
      Tuck Everlasting is an elegant read-- a small story with a big heart. On the surface, it's about a family who unknowingly drank from a "fountain of youth," and the little girl who stumbles upon their secret. On a deeper level, it's about a child making important realizations about what it means to grow up and earn some freedom from one's family. Winnie struggles with fear and the discomfort of being away from the reassuring, if somewhat oppressive bosom of her family, but ultimately learns to take a stand based on what she alone believes is important.

      Despite what many of the reviews say, I don't find the ending to be sad at all! I think it's a perfect ending....
    • 5/5
      A familiy drank some special water and now they can live forever. They keep to themselves and move a lot, so nobody realizes it. A little girl finds them and they explain to her that she can't tell anyone. A bad man find out about the water and wants to make money off of it. This is a good story. It kept me engaged. I wish it would have ended up with Winnie drinking the water at age 17 and living happily ever after with Jesse! Classroom Extension Activities- The class would read the book and watch the movie to find similiarities and differences.- I would have the kids journal about what age they would want to live forever at and what are some good reasons for living forever and some bad reasons.
    • 4/5
      I didn't read Tuck Everlasting as a child, though it is geared as a children's book, in fact I'd never even heard of it til it popped up on my Goodreads recommendations and I then stumbled across it in a secondhand bookstore (they do wonders for me!). It's not very long, only about 135 pages, and it only took me a train ride to the city to read it, but that does not make it any less impressive!I don't know what it was that so struck me about this book. I loved the descriptions, which painted a beautiful picture but weren't overdone. I loved the characters - the Tucks and Winnie - the Tucks for their selfishness and their sadness, Winnie for her curiousity, her fierce loyalty, her willingness to help when she realised what was at stake.I couldn't help but wonder how the Tucks would perceive this world now, this fast paced world of technology and progress, as compared to the world in the early 1800s when they would have first realised that they would live forever. I wonder what they would think. Would it make them happy? Would they be disappointed at the way humans so carelessly treat their lives and this planet? Just a thought to ponder.
    • 5/5
      Tuck Everlasting is a very descriptive book about a young girl named Winnie Foster. She lives a much protected life behind her family’s fence. She decides that she wants to leave the fence and explore what is out in the world. She enters the woods that her family owns near her house. While in the woods she happens upon a young man by the name of Jesse Tuck. He is drinking out of a well in the middle of the woods. Winnie wants a drink but he will not let her have one. When Jesses mother and brother arrives they decide they have not choice but to kidnap her and take her home with them. They explain to Winnie why she can not drink from the well and why she can not tell anyone about the well. When Winnie returns home she has to decide if she is going to drink from the well when she turns seventeen so she can be with Jesse and live forever.I loved this book! The writing is so descriptive I can picture every part of it in my mind like I was there. I love the struggle that Winnie goes thru. I often wonder what decision I would make if I was ever put in shoes. I had never thought about the negative aspects of living forever. I would have my students write a pro’s and con’s chart for drinking from the well. I would also have them right a continuation of the story for what the Tucks are going to encounter in the twenty first century

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    Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt

    Prologue

    The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.

    One day at that time, not so very long ago, three things happened and at first there appeared to be no connection between them.

    At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse.

    At noontime, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.

    And at sunset a stranger appeared at the Fosters’ gate. He was looking for someone, but he didn’t say who.

    No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A Ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late.

    1

    The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd of cows who were, to say the least, relaxed. It wandered along in curves and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant tangent to the top of a small hill, ambled down again between fringes of bee-hung clover, and then cut sidewise across a meadow. Here its edges blurred. It widened and seemed to pause, suggesting tranquil bovine picnics: slow chewing and thoughtful contemplation of the infinite. And then it went on again and came at last to the wood. But on reaching the shadows of the first trees, it veered sharply, swung out in a wide arc as if, for the first time, it had reason to think where it was going, and passed around.

    On the other side of the wood, the sense of easiness dissolved. The road no longer belonged to the cows. It became, instead, and rather abruptly, the property of people. And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn. On the left stood the first house, a square and solid cottage with a touch-me-not appearance, surrounded by grass cut painfully to the quick and enclosed by a capable iron fence some four feet high which clearly said, "Move on—we don’t want you here." So the road went humbly by and made its way, past cottages more and more frequent but less and less forbidding, into the village. But the village doesn’t matter, except for the jailhouse and the gallows. The first house only is important; the first house, the road, and the wood.

    There was something strange about the wood. If the look of the first house suggested that you’d better pass it by, so did the look of the wood, but for quite a different reason. The house was so proud of itself that you wanted to make a lot of noise as you passed, and maybe even throw a rock or two. But the wood had a sleeping, otherworld appearance that made you want to speak in whispers. This, at least, is what the cows must have thought: "Let it keep its peace; we won’t disturb it."

    Whether the people felt that way about the wood or not is difficult to say. There were some, perhaps, who did. But for the most part the people followed the road around the wood because that was the way it led. There was no road through the wood. And anyway, for the people, there was another reason to leave the wood to itself: it belonged to the Fosters, the owners of the touch-me-not cottage, and was therefore private property in spite of the fact that it lay outside the fence and was perfectly accessible.

    The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?

    In any case, the wood, being on top—except, of course, for its roots—was owned bud and bough by the Fosters in the touch-me-not cottage, and if they never went there, if they never wandered in among the trees, well, that was their affair. Winnie, the only child of the house, never went there, though she sometimes stood inside the fence, carelessly banging a stick against the iron bars, and looked at it. But she had never been curious about it. Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn’t.

    And what is interesting, anyway, about a slim few acres of trees? There will be a dimness shot through with bars of sunlight, a great many squirrels and birds, a deep, damp mattress of leaves on the ground, and all the other things just as familiar if not so pleasant—things like spiders, thorns, and grubs.

    In the end, however, it was the cows who were responsible for the wood’s isolation, and the cows, through some wisdom they were not wise enough to know that they possessed, were very wise indeed. If they had made their road through the wood instead of around it, then the people would have followed the road. The people would have noticed the giant ash tree at the center of the wood, and then, in time, they’d have noticed the little spring bubbling up among its roots in spite of the pebbles piled there to conceal it. And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin.

    2

    And so, at dawn, that day in the first week of August, Mae Tuck woke up and lay for a while beaming at the cobwebs on the ceiling. At last she said aloud, The boys’ll be home tomorrow!

    Mae’s husband, on his back beside her, did not stir. He was still asleep, and the melancholy creases that folded his daytime face were smoothed and slack. He snored gently, and for a moment the corners of his mouth turned upward in a smile. Tuck almost never smiled except in sleep.

    Mae sat up in bed and looked at him tolerantly. The boys’ll be home tomorrow, she said again, a little more loudly.

    Tuck twitched and the smile vanished. He opened his eyes. Why’d you have to wake me up? he sighed. I was having that dream again, the good one where we’re all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.

    Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman with a round, sensible face and calm brown eyes. It’s no use having that dream, she said. Nothing’s going to change.

    You tell me that every day, said Tuck, turning away from her onto his side. Anyways, I can’t help what I dream.

    Maybe not, said Mae. But, all the same, you should’ve got used to things by now.

    Tuck groaned. I’m going back to sleep, he said.

    Not me, said Mae. "I’m going to take the horse and go down to the wood to meet

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