Winnie is rejoined with her family and gets to know that the Tucks are in jail for killing and about the intends that they are to be executed, eventually disclosing their secret. Having found out that Winnie had run into the woods, Miles uses this data to attain the Fosters’ property declare to this piece of the woods in substitute for Winnie’s return. She also starts feeling some romantic feelings to Jesse, and he tries to persuade Winnie to drink from the spring too. Living with them, Winnie gets used to their trouble-free going lifestyle. Winnie happened to be the first person since then to discover them, and get to know of the spring. Their neighbors started diverging from them. They started suspecting that something was wrong after twenty years passed and they still stayed at the same age. It became obvious that they could not die when Jesse fell from a tree without a single scrape. They try to explain that they gained their immortality accidentally after drinking from a small spring. When Winnie get to know this fact he becomes terrified, the Tucks kidnap her and take her back to their residence. The Tucks have a hazardous secret: they are everlasting and not able to age. The family of the Tucks, consists of Angus Tuck, Mae Tuck, and their two boys, Miles and Jesse.

In the woods she meets the Tucks a mysterious family who lead lonely lives. She gets lost in the woods one day in an effort to run away her suffocated, affected, and disgusting lifestyle. Ten-year-old Winnie Foster arrives from a well-bred, straight-tied family. The plot of the book involves the description of the Tucks and Fosters Family. The book first was published in 1975 as a book for children and it explains the notion of eternity and immortality and the motivations why it might not be as advantageous as it seems at first glance. The title of the book by Natalie Babbitt, and the movie directed by Jay Russell fully coincide, as the novel is one of the non-numerous which should not be changed.

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