She tells him that the matron is planning to take all the kids to Heron Lake for a week, and asks him if he can see it. They talk through his confinement, while she explores their new residence. Whatever she says, even though no one else can hear it, Tony does. He’s restricted to the dormitory, forbidden to contact anyone, even Tia.īut it doesn’t matter. Everyone is amazed, and Tony is in trouble. He fights with Truck, and even though the other boy is older, bigger and stronger, Tony wins. When Truck, the biggest boy at Hackett House steals Tia’s starbox, Tony has to get it back.
The only things of value they own are taken from them upon their arrival–the only thing they manage to keep is Tia’s starbox–a square purse with a strange design of two stars on it, each of them with eight points. But Hackett House is ugly, and full of kids who are either bullies, or who are too scared of bullies to help the two newcomers. They know they belong in a place that’s full of music, and movement and maybe even magic. It’s a horrible place, and neither Tony nor Tia are happy. So the two of them are sent to Hackett House, a group home that is more of a place for delinquents than a home. It doesn’t help that Tia doesn’t talk, and Tony has a reputation for fighting (which is really just defending his sister from bullying.) No one wants to take in troubled orphans. It’s a dirty, ugly neighborhood, that only gets worse when Granny Malone dies, and the two of them are turned over to Social Services.īecause of their odd looks–pale hair, olive skin and dark blue eyes, almost black–they’ve always had a hard time fitting in. Tony and Tia had always lived with Granny Malone…or at least as far back as their memories allow them. Popular enough to create enough demand for a sequel, and then…another sequel, and a made for TV movie, and finally, a modern remake.īut the book is, and always will be, an Old Favorite. Escape to Witch Mountain wasn’t exactly a memorable top ten box office smash, but it was one of Disney’s most popular live-action movie, both in theaters and, eventually, on TV. Sometimes, a movie is made that is so popular, people forget that it was actually based on a book.
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