The Watchers Author:Helen Cresswell Running away from the children's home where they've been "placed," Katy and Josh take off for Alton Towers, a nearby amusement park on the grand scale. There they hide out, eating discarded food and blending in with the crowds by day and sleeping wherever they can at night. — Readers who have climbed aboard for a roller-coaster ... more »ride into realistic fiction will soon find their car veering off into fantasy land when Katy discovers that the bag lady who hangs out in Alton Towers by day is someone -- or something -- else at sundown. Katy's thrill at learning how to travel through time is tempered by the knowledge that children in another dimension are counting on her to destroy the evil force that haunts the park.« less