In the book Tuck Everlasting there is a girl named Winnie. Winnie was a ten year old girl that lived in a touch me not cottage surrounded by a iron fence .One day Winnie was sitting in front of her house bored and wanted to go in the woods.She decided to walk in the woods and if she wanted to come back she would just walk back home.Once she got in the woods she saw a boy sitting against a tree on the grass flipping a twig between his toe.All of a sudden Winnie and the boy stared at each other for a while then they kept asking questions about each other.Then Mae Tuck (Jesse's mom and Jesse is the boy ) arrived with a horse to pick up Jesse but Mae needed Winnie to come too so she came with them.Then she met Miles(Jesse's brother) and then she met Mr Tuck .After spending time with the tucks she learned about the spring. Then she went back to her house but found out about Mae getting in trouble for hurting the man in the yellow suit.Winnie wanted to be helpful and save her friends so she switched places with Mae in the jail cell.