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At what time of year does the story begin?
First week of August- hottest part of the summer.
Who made the road to Treegap?
The cows trod the road.
What is one reason people didn't go through the Foster's woods?
The road went around the wood.
How many kids are in the Foster family?
One- Winnie
Name the Tuck family members.
Mae (Ma), Angus (Pa), Miles, Jesse
What is the age Jesse looks like?
17
How did the Man in the Yellow Suit find the Tucks?
He overheard them talking about the spring and followed them after they kidnapped Winnie.
What would happen if everyone knew about the spring in the woods?
People would be "running like pigs to slops." They'd trample each other. Little ones would stay little and old would stay old. The people would be piling up.
Who does Winnie talk to outside of her house at the beginning of the book?
The toad.
What is the one pretty thing Mae owned (that played an integral part in the story).
The Music Box
What is Jesse's actual age?
104
What did Angus Tuck dream about?
Heaven and not ever hearing of Treegap.
He tells them he will get her back for them if they give him their woods for free.
What calms Winnie down after she is kidnapped?
The music box.
What things happened to make the Tucks realize something strange was happening to them? (must know at least 2)
Jesse fell out of a tree and landed on his head.
Pa got bit by a snake.
Jesse ate poison toadstools.
Mae cut herself.
The horse got shot.
How many years have the Tucks looked the same?
87
What did people think they were hearing in the woods?
Elf music.
Why does Winnie get kidnapped?
She sees Jesse drinking from the spring in her woods and the Tucks know they can't let everyone know about the spring.
Who all drank from the spring in the Foster's woods? Who did NOT drink from it?
Mae, Angus, Miles, and Jesse Tuck, and the horse did drink.
The cat did not drink from it.
What did Tuck do to prove they were immortal?
Shot himself.
What did Winnie do to help Mae Tuck when she was in prison? What time did this happen, and what was the weather like?
Took her place in the jail.
Midnight.
Storming- this helped them remove the window without being heard.
What does Winnie do with the gift from Jesse?
Puts it in her bureau drawer, then later pours it on the toad.
What has happened to the woods when the Tucks return at the end of the book?
What does Jesse give to Winnie and what are his instructions?
A bottle of the spring water and to drink it when she's 17 and come and find him.
How does Tuck describe life to Winnie? What does he compare it to?
"The Circle of Life"- Life is like a wheel. Like the pond goes to the ocean and then back into the atmosphere, then down again with the rain. Life keeps moving.