The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Hardcover, 224 pages

English language

Published 1999 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-0-684-86762-5
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OCLC Number:
920245285

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What if the woods were full of them? And of course they were, the woods were full of everything you didn't like, everything you were afraid of and instinctively loathed, everything that tried to overwhelm you with nasty, no-brain panic.

The brochure promised a "moderate-to-difficult" six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, where nine-year-old Trisha McFarland was to spend Saturday with her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. When she wanders off to escape their constant bickering, then tries to catch up by attempting to shortcut through the woods, Trisha strays deeper into a wilderness full of peril and terror. Especially when night falls.

Trisha has only her wits for navigation, only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fear. For solace she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of Boston Red …

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Subjects

  • Children of divorced parents -- Fiction
  • Pitchers (Baseball) -- Fiction
  • Mountain life -- Fiction
  • Appalachian Region -- Fiction
  • Appalachian Trail -- Fiction