What if You Could Live Forever?

In my quest to try to cram as much reading as I can before June, I've decided to read some children's literature. I'm hoping it might come in handy once I start my summer program. Yesterday, I got Tuck Everlasting. It's a very well-written story. I really enjoy the dialog between the Tucks and Winnie. The beginning of the story was amazing.

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.