Summary: This is a beautifully written novel with vivid imagery and a suspenseful story. Winnie Foster lives with her family-proud, land-proud people in a cottage that sits right next to a wood that belongs to them. As far as they know or care, the only things that come and go from that wood are cows. Yet, that didn’t keep Winnie from wandering into the wood one day after a strange encounter with a man in a yellow suit the night before. Apprehensive at first, she soon begins to notice how beautiful the wood is. Not long into her journey, she spots a boy sitting near a spring. When she asks for a drink, he begins to act very strange. Before she knows it, the boy’s mother and brother ride up on horseback and the next few minutes are a blur. She learns these people are the Tuck’s: Mae, Miles, Jesse and Angus. They take her to their cottage and explain to her why the spring she requested to drink from must remain a secret. It wasn’t necessarily a kidnapping, Winnie realizes, when they are so sweet to her, feed her and promise to take her home in the morning. When the man in the yellow suit shows up the next morning, Winnie refuses to go with him, but something worse happens. Winnie must act courageously to save Mae Tuck and the secret of the spring.
Implementation: Literature circles would be fabulous to use with this book! Literary Luminary, Summarizer, Connector, Discussion Director, Vocabulary Enricher are all roles to assign to students to focus on with each chapter or part to a book. This would help to introduce student led literature discussions rather than teacher led. Students would summarize parts of the book, research vocabulary words, answer questions/make predictions and connect the story to themselves and other texts. This would build confidence in reading and comprehension capability.
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