Tuck Everlasting

Title: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbit
Genre: TeenKid, Fantasy
Copyright: 1975
Ranking: ?Unranked
Binding: Trade paperback
LibraryThing: Title:Tuck Everlasting WorkId 5521
Type: Owned
Quote:
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. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for later. (opening paragraph)

I heard of this on HIGHLA-L and then found it secondhand a week later. Cool, huh?