SOLVED. Fantasy/ Sci-fi novel about neighbors from the future. [s]

[Tiffany]

A family that lives in "York" has these unusual neighbors. Only description I can think of for the main family is that the eldest son is taller than is considered normal. He ends up falling for the neighbors daughter, whom is also taller, but is do to the people of their time being taller in general. I think he is offered the chance to go with them to the future but is reluctant to leave his family.

I always thought the title was something like the outsiders or the visitors. A teacher recommended it to me in mid to late elementary school because it was at a higher reading level ( maybe 7th grade ) and seemed like something I would enjoy due to the fantasy/ sci-fi feel.

[Kris]

The Future of Us by Jay Asher?

[Tiffany]

Sadly no, can't be. I definitely read this book long before Facebook was even considered. It was a little more old timey than that.

[Ayshe]

The Visitors by John Rowe Townsend? This is the Kirkus review:
When three tall, dark strangers appear virtually out of nowhere on the riverbank in Cambridge where John's father is a professor--and even though their strange arrival coincides with some momentary dizziness and dislocation for John and his friend--it does take him a remarkably long time (more than half the book) to realize that the newcomers are visitors from the future. By then, John's older brother Ben and Katherine, the young girl of the trio, have fallen in love--so overwhelmingly that they run away to avoid her inevitable ""recall"" to her own time. Most of the rest traces John's pursuit of the couple, to warn them that Katherine will die if she doesn't return that night, and at the end the cast assembles for a sad farewell dinner while the lovers say their last goodbye in private. Townsend handles the time travel neatly but without teasing the imagination; what's left, then, are some temporary relationships--Ben and Katherine's sentimental, yet peculiarly wan love story, John's sympathy for Katherine's mother--and some conventional comic relief in the person of Katherine's childish father, turned loose in an imperfect world with alcohol, barmaids, and automobiles. Disappointing.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...

[Tiffany]

Thank you so much! I can't believe even with the actual name I always managed to look over this book every time.

[Ayshe]

Glad to have helped! (It happens, I searched for outsiders and visitors as title on worldcat.org and didn't spot it (due to the year range selected probably). And then I came across it while looking for something else).