The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

• ISBN: 9780553153040
• Author: Babbit, Natalie
• Published: 1986 , Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Themes: Death and dying, Difficult decisions, Kidnapping, life cycle
• Descriptors: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), United States