Characters
Settings
Main Events
Plot
Conclusion
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What character feels happy about drinking from the spring & thinks that life is to enjoy yourself?
Jesse
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What is located in the woods?
the magic spring
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What happens to Winnie after she sees Jesse drinking from the spring?
The Tucks kidnap her.
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Who does Winnie tell she will run away? Why does she want to run away?
She tells the toad that she will run away. She wants to run away because she thinks her parents are too overprotective.
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What happens to the man in the yellow suit?
He dies because Mae hits him in the head with Tuck's shotgun.
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What is the only nice thing that Mae Tuck owns that she takes everywhere with her?
music box
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Where is the magic spring located? Be specific!
at the base of a giant ash tree in the Foster's woods
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How long had the Tucks looked exactly the same? Why do they never change?
They don't change because they drank water out of a magic spring that freezes you at the age you are when you drink the water.The water makes you unable to grow, change, get hurt, or die.
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What does Jesse give to Winnie? What does he want her to do with his gift?
Jesse gives Winnie a bottle of the spring water. He wants her to drink it when she is 17, and marry him so they can go see the world together.
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What is Miles' plan to break Mae out of jail? How does Winnie offer to help?
Miles is going to loosen the screws & pull the window frame, bars & all, out so Mae can climb out of the window. Winnie offers to go into the cell & pretend that she is Mae so the Tucks have longer to get away.
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Who owns the touch me not cottage & the woods?
The Fosters
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What village does the story take place in & what month of the year is it?
Treegap in August
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What does Angus wish?
That he & his family could jump back onto the wheel of life & be able to grow, change, & die.
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What does the man in the yellow suit want to do with the spring water?
He plans to sell it to people that deserve it.
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What does Winnie do with the bottle of water that Jesse gave her?
She pours it on the toad so it can live forever.
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Who takes Winnie fishing & tells her that people have to be meat eaters sometimes?
Miles
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What does the touch me not cottage seem to say?
Move on we don't want you here
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How does the man in the yellow suit know about the Tucks?
Miles' wife use to live with the man in the yellow suit's grandma. Miles' wife told the grandma & the man in the yellow suit's mom about the family that never grew older.
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How does the man in the yellow suit get the Fosters to sell him their woods?
He blackmails the Fosters by saying he will show them where Winnie is if they sell him their woods.
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Why did Miles' wife leave him?
She thought he sold his soul to the devil because he never looked any older.
500
Who says the worst is happening at last & what does that character mean?
Mae & she means that somebody discovered the spring.
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How is the Tucks' house different than Winnie's house?
The Tucks house is very messy, & they have tons of stuff laying everywhere. Plus they have a mouse living in a drawer, & they don't mind that. Winnie's house is spotless!
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What is the one clue that the man in the yellow suit had to help him locate the family that never grew older?
Miles' kids taught the man in the yellow suit's grandma & mom the tune of the music box of the mother of the family that never grew older. Then grandma & mom taught the tune to the man in the yellow suit.
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Give 3 details that prove the Tucks' story about the spring.
Jesse fell out of a tree & ate poison toadstools & nothing happened. Mae cut herself & Angus got bit by a snake & nothing happened. The horse got shot by hunters & nothing happened. The cat didn't drink from the spring & it died.
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What do we find out about Winnie at the very end of the book?
We find out that she didn't drink from the spring. She got married, had kids, & then eventually died.
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