The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Name: Serina

Grade: College

Title: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Author: Stephen King

Nine-year-old Trisha is sick of her mother and her older brother's bickering on their hiking trip. In an attempt to escape them, she goes off the path on her own, planning to meet back up at the trail through a shortcut. However, she accidentally stumbled down an embankment and becomes hopelessly lost. She soon consumes all the food in her pack after being lost for a couple of days, while her mother and brother call out a search party. Trisha's only comfort in the dark and cold of the woods is her walkman, which she uses to listen to the baseball games with her favorite player, Tom Gordon. Eventually, either from the girl being delirious or from supernatural causes, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is there with her and he actually speaks to her and gives her advice. With his help she is able to find edible berries and last through the freezing nights alone. However, the longer Trisha is lost, the more she begins to think that her and Tom aren't the only things in the woods. There is something sinister waiting for her in the darkness, watching her as she tries to follow a stream to find civilization. Trisha will have to be careful is she wants to evade what it is that hunts her, but her body is quickly diminishing from starvation and even her hero Tom Gordon may not be able to save her. . .

I picked this book up because Stephen King rocks!

I finished this book because it was very suspenseful.

I'd give this book to any Red Sox fan or any Stephen king fan.

Rating: ****