# Tuck Everlasting

**Author:** Natalie Babbitt
**Lexile:** 770L
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–12
**First published:** 1975
**Page count:** 144
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780312369811`
**ISBN-10:** `0312369816`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/tuck-everlasting
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winnie Foster discovers the Tuck family's secret: a spring in the wood that grants immortality. The short, lyrical novel is a 4th-6th grade staple frequently paired with introductory discussions of theme (would you choose to live forever?) and is among the most-taught fantasy texts at the elementary-to-middle transition.

## Themes

- mortality and immortality
- choice
- family secrets
- coming of age
- rural childhood

## Content notes

- off-page violence
- moral peril

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 9+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 4-5 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 6-8 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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