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Question: What is the name of this book about an alien child in the woods where a girl just moved!.!.!.!?
Here's the plot: a girl's family is moving into a house that belonged to an old woman who could no longer afford it!. The girl finds out that an alien child has been living in the surrounding woods for the past 50 or 100 years, but in the alien child's years, she'd only been there two days!. The old woman could see the child, the main girl could feel the child's feelings, and her little sister could hear the child!.
I read this book a really long time ago, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of it, so I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out with this!. Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
"A Watcher in the Woods" by Florence Engel Randall
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/A_Watcher_i!.!.!.
"The family needed a house and the big old brick and stucco place in the country seemed perfect!. Why then was Jan so unhappy about it!? What was she afraid of!? What was in woods beyond!? She had felt it the very first day, walking up to the door!. She had known the watcher was there as they knocked and waited for Mrs!. Aylwood to come!. And the little old woman, glancing at the woods, had known it was there too!. Of course they bought the house!. Jan had known they would!. It was her mother's kind of house!. Yet it was Jan who had made the purchase possible!. Mrs!. Aylwood, who was selling the house only because she had to, had talked to Jan and said, "I'll have to take a chance on you!." What chance was that!? Moving in, Jan felt the watcher still, but the only concrete evidence was a rash of broken mirrors-all with a large X across the middle!. Not until the family went on a picnic near the old pond on the property did more clues come, and then they came as puzzles to be solved, as mysteries to be understood, as incredible facts to be absorbed, and as desperate need begging for prompt action!. The universe is full of surprises, and Jan's watcher was one of the most amazing!."
Disney made it into a movie in 1980
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Watcher!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com