The female protagonist's only friend is a toad she talks to through the fence before she meets Jesse.
The female protagonist's only friend is a toad she talks to through the fence before she meets Jesse. The man in the yellow suit follows the protagonist, acquires the land in question, and then tells Winnie's family she has been kidnapped. After Mae confronts him with a shotgun, she is sentenced to the gallows, though Winnie and Jesse devise a plant to free her, because she cannot die. For 10 points—name this children's work by Natalie Babbit that concerns an eternal spring and the titular family that never ages.
The female protagonist's only friend is a toad she talks to through the fence before she meets Jesse.
{Tuck Everlasting}