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The Forgotten Door Kindle Edition

by Alexander Key (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 514 ratings
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“Well written fantasy with strong character emphasis and empathy” from the author of the sci-fi classic Escape to Witch Mountain (Kirkus Reviews).

At night, Little Jon’s people go out to watch the stars. Mesmerized by a meteor shower, he forgets to watch his step and falls through a moss-covered door to another land: America. He awakes hurt, his memory gone, sure only that he does not belong here. Captured by a hunter, Jon escapes by leaping six feet over a barbed-wire fence. Hungry and alone, he staggers through the darkness and is about to be caught when he is rescued by a kind family known as the Beans. They shelter him, feed him, and teach him about his new home. In return, he will change their lives forever.
 
Although the Beans are kind to Little Jon, the townspeople mistrust the mysterious visitor. But Jon has untold powers, and as he learns to harness them, he will show his newfound friends that they have no reason to be afraid. 
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    8 - 11 years, from customers
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    112 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    3 - 6
  5. Publisher
    Open Road Media Teen & Tween
  6. Publication date
    July 29, 2014
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Jason Vu is a voice-over artist living in Houston, Texas. Jason turned his love for performance into a passion for storytelling. He began recording audiobooks in 2021.

Alexander Key (1904-1979) started out as an illustrator before he began writing science fiction novels for young readers. He has published many titles, including Sprockets: A Little Robot, Mystery of the Sassafras Chair, and The Forgotten Door, winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Key's novel Escape to Witch Mountain was adapted for film in 1975, 1995, and 2009.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00LLSF4VU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Teen & Tween (July 29, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 29, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2548 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 514 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
4.7 out of 5
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The forgotten door!
I’ve read this book so many times and have three copies of it. My favorite book of all time when I was very young and into adulthood!! You won’t be disappointed if you read this book by Alexander Key. Love it!!
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Pat Stanford, Award-winning Author & Poet
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2024
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I read this as a preteen and a question asked on Facebook brought it to mind. I found it on Kindle Unlimited and downloaded it. Read it in 2 hours and enjoyed it all over again.
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U.S. Army Major
5.0 out of 5 stars The Forgotten Door - A Great Values Book for All!
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2014
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Alexander Key's The Forgotten Door, is without a doubt a great book for both children and adults to read again and again.

Through a simple story of Jon, a kind and loving boy with some amazing abilities, and his difficulties on Earth, this book teaches that universal concepts such as compassion, sharing, love, and commitment - when combined with action - have the ability to defeat evil in our world.

Key also understands the value of ethical treatment of animals and has an appreciation for Nature and the beauty of natural space on Earth. These values and many more are smoothly woven into this amazing tale kids will want to read and parents should be re-reading when they have forgotten the value of doing good deeds.

The Forgotten Door is an exciting and well-written adventure you will not soon forget, and I believe reading all of Alexander Key's books with your children would be good for any parent concerned with overcoming the absolute filth and trash children are exposed to through the mass media.

Use The Forgotten Door as a way to open the door to a discussion with your children about the concepts of good and evil.

However, The Forgotten Door doesn't sugar coat or ignore the brutal truths of reality. It teaches that there are bad, evil people in the world. However, it also teaches that when they can't be avoided, evil people must be confronted " head on" through effective action.

The children and good people in the story are triumphant over evil and all ends very well for both Jon and the family that supported him because they took action and had the correct core values inside themselves.

These are important lessons all humans should learn and have reinforced through literature. Alexander Key's books, including The Forgotten Door, are worthwhile reading and will bring you closer to your family and your children.
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bscottv
5.0 out of 5 stars my first really memorable childhood book. I still keep looking for doors!
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
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Nice science primer. Inspires curiosity!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sci Fi for kids
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2019
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Sometimes books are for times well after they were written. This book about a strange, lost boy from someplace else and how people react to him - and his search for home - is a thrilling adventure with vivid characters and a satisfying ending. Loved it as a child and am happy to see it again, and to recommend it to others.
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Jason Clark
5.0 out of 5 stars A Book For Children, But Not Childish
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024
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Alexander Key was a great writer.

I had a memory of reading this book when I was young thirty years ago. With the help of friends I recalled the title and bought it.

It holds up.

The characters still leap from the page, and the tensions and conflicts still capture the reader.

I'd recommend this book for reading to children, and being read by adults.

RIP Mr Key, and thank you.
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Gemini
5.0 out of 5 stars Much loved since I was a kid.
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024
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I have always loved this book. I have owned a copy since I first read it in elementary school.
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Trip
5.0 out of 5 stars A childhood favorite!
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2022
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Young Jon is watching a meteor shower with family, friends and neighbors when suddenly he falls through a door.. a door in the ground.. one that had never been there that he recalled, though as he fell he remembered stories...

When he crashed to the ground he finds his memories gone, no one around and everything is 'strange'. Similar, but not the same.
People for the most part seems more 'changed'. Some so very different than how he expected them to be he's frightened.
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I borrowed this from a friend in grade school, many years ago (I am over 60, now) and to be honest, I loved it so much I didn't want to return it. I re-read it several times in high school and the school librarian told me where I could purchase my own copy, which I still have, but unfortunately, it's packed away still from our last move.
Well written, nearly timeless.
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Jeanie
5.0 out of 5 stars The Forgotten Door
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020
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I gave this book " The Forgotten Door" 5 stars. How much is the rating for being well written and an engaging story; or how much for nostalgia's sake. I'm not sure. I first read this book as a child. I think I was around twelve. It stayed with me all these years, and one day I decided to see if I could find it. Pleasantly surprised, it didn't take much effort to find it on Amazon, Kindle edition!
The story is about a young boy from another world who falls through a doorway from his world to ours. He has natural abilities that are unremarkable on his world, but cause fear and consternation among some of the people on Earth.
The boy ( named Jon) is rescued by a kind and loving Earth family. As the story progresses, Jon is accused of a crime he didn't commit, and the government gets involved. I won't give away the ending, but I can say I was satisfied how it turned out.
If you're looking for an exciting sci-fi story for a favorite ten or twelve year old, this would be a good one.
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alan smith
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2017
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Truly outstanding!!
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Parsec
5.0 out of 5 stars Einfach wunderschön
Reviewed in Germany on July 18, 2016
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Wenn man mich fragt welche Bücher auf mich als Kind besonderen Eindruck hinterlassen haben müsste ich unbedingt auch "Die vergessene Tür" von Alexander Key nennen, welches hier mit THE FORGOTTEN DOOR im Original vorliegt.

Die Geschichte um den pazifizischen und der Menschheit moralisch weit überlegenen außerirdischen Jungen, der sich mit Hilfe einer freundlich gesonnenen Familie versucht, sich an seine Herkunft zu erinnern und wieder zu seinem Planeten zurückzukehren ist zu Recht ein Klassiker. Es verwundert daher auch nicht, dass diese Geschichte mit nach Deutschland transponierter Handlung als "Jan vom goldenen Stern" Anfang der 80er für das deutsche Fernsehen verfilmt wurde und einfach zeitlos ist.

Als ich die hier rezensierte Kindle Version neulich nochmals las fiel mir einmal mehr auf, das dieses Buch einfach wunderschön erzählt ist und Alexander Key einfach mit wenigen, klaren Sätzen Szenen sehr plastisch beschreiben konnte. THE FORGOTTEN DOOR liest sich daher auch heute noch ausgezeichnet.

Alles in allem: ein Buch, dem ich auch anno 2016 noch gerne verdiente 5 Sterne gebe - und eine wundervolle Kindheitserinnerung
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Maria
5.0 out of 5 stars My 10 year old loved this book
Reviewed in Canada on January 27, 2013
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This was on my reading list since I was a child. One day, I decided to check if it had ever been reprinted and it had. I bought it and my 10 year old and I began reading it. He loved it! He couldn't wait for reading time each night, even foregoing his precious xbox time to read with mom.

For my part, I was enthralled by the colourful and rich descriptions in the book. The dialogues were from the deep south and I found myself even affecting a slight accent as I read. Every attention to detail was put into this book.

As for the story, Little Jon falls through a door to our world, which is strange to him, with it's fighting and killing and hating. Even the idea of money is foreign to him, yet he makes friends with a doe and a dog. When he's found by a good family, who try to help him, he finds he has to help them, too.

One point that is so very different in his book (written in 1965) from books of this nature written today, is that Little Jon is helped by the father and mother of the family. Their children are part of the story, but not fleshed out as primary supporting characters in the book. The supporting characters are adults, even though Little Jon is a child. If this book had been written today, I think the Bean children would have been the primary supporting characters instead. I find the use of the respect for adults and the trust given to the adults to be refreshing. I'm tired of children's books where kids go to other kids for help and end up in more trouble while their oblivious parents are barely in the book. This book shows that adults can be advocates and that children, while capable, don't have to solve everything by themselves.
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JoJoreviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite childhood book!
Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2013
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Wonderful story. A must-read for all tweens. I read this again a few years ago, after 25 years and it is as good as I remembered. Intelligent boy from other planet falls through a portal 'door' and lands on earth. His discoveries about earth and human beings, is eye opening.
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