

Because of their record, they are then packed off to an Orphanage of Fear, and begin trying to make a serious effort to remember their past. They do not know where they originally came from they have lived with Granny Malone, who was struck and killed by a car the day before the story opens.

They conceal the fact that they have Psychic Powers, and that Tia can talk (her voice is pitched beyond the range of most people's ears, other than Tony's). Tony and Tia Malone are decent, intelligent kids, but have a bad record, partly because they have grown up in a slum, and partly because Tia ignores rules and common sense whenever she sees an animal in distress (she once broke into a store to free a trapped kitten, so she has a record). It has been made into a film by Disney three times, in 1975, 19.

A 1968 science fiction novel by Alexander Key.
