SOLVED. YA SciFi/ Fantasy. A boy falls from the sky into our world. Read in the 1970's. Always reminded me of Escape to Witch Mountain. Boy character had "special" boots and psychic powers. [s]

[Gillian]

This was definitely YA or even Juvenile. I think I read it from my school library in the mid-70's. Or bought it from a Scholastic book fair. I remember the cover was dark, probably black, and had a door cut through it, with the boy (Jon?)'s silhouette in it, falling backwards.

Plot: the boy somehow accidentally fell through this "door" which left him trapped in our world. His people may have periodically visited here. He found himself in the woods, maybe, and may have seen a deer and a fawn. Then he is found or travels to a farm/small town where an older childless couple? take him in. He lives with them for a while, and they pass him off as a relation or friend-of-a-friend's child. He's a younger teen, I think. Then somehow he is being hunted; maybe he shows that he has psychic powers - can push people, or start fires or something similar - and the wrong people see him, and then maybe the military get involved. He is helped to flee back into the woods, and he either signals his people to come back for him, or it is time for the door to reopen, and he leaves. I remember that the tone of the story was anti-violence and pro-friendship, etc... Anyone recognize it?

[beichst]

Pretty sure this is The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key.

[Gillian]

Brad wrote: "Pretty sure this is The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key."



Yes! Solved! I was convinced Key was the author, but I couldn't trust my memory.

[beichst]

Glad to hear this was it. I hope you have a chance to enjoy re-reading.