The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon tells the story of nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, whose Saturday afternoon outing with her mother and brother turns into an eight day nightmare when Trisha gets lost in the woods. Still reeling from the fallout of her parents' divorce, Trisha has begun to feel invisible whenever she is around her mother, Quilla, and her brother, Pete. Quilla and Pete have been arguing continuously since Quilla moved the children away from their former home and schoolmates after the divorce. As the novel opens, Trisha finds herself ignored, as usual, by her mom and brother, who argue so intensely as they walk along the hiking trail that they don't even notice Trisha. They don't hear her ask for a drink of waternor do they hear her tell them she needs to go to.....
