The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

by John Escott (Adaptor), Stephen King

“Help me, I’m lost! Please help me. I’m lost...” Nine year old Trisha McFarland becomes lost in the forest while hiking with her mother and brother along the Appalachian Trail in Maine. As Trisha starts to cry, she remembers Tom Gordon. Tom Gordon is a professional baseball player. He has never met Trisha McFarland. This is the story of Trisha McFarland and Tom Gordon, and how a man she never met, saved her life.

Genres: Fiction

96 pages, Paperback

Published May 17, 2005

About the author

John Escott started by writing children's books and comic scripts, but now writes and adapts books for students of all ages. He especially enjoys writing crime and mystery thrillers, and is a member of the British Crime Writers Association.

With Oxford University Press John has published London for the Oxford Bookworms Factfile series; Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery, Star Reporter, Girl on a Motorbike, The Fly and Other Horror Stories, and The Scarlet Letter for the Oxford Bookworms Library series; The Magician, Time for a Robbery, Star for a day, Tomorrow's Girl, and The Man with Three NAMEs for the Hotshot Puzzles series; and A Pretty Face for the Dominoes series.

Reviews

[Mrs.C.Cudby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not sure why I enjoyed this so much. It is just about a girl’s experience of being lost in the woods. It somehow managed to keep me completely enthralled.

[Arax · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was nice and well written.This was the first book written by Stephan King that I have read.
In a few words this is a book about survival,hopes and fears of a nine years old girl who gets lost in a jungle.
The beautiful parts of the book are her thoughts and the way she tries to comfort herself.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I reserve 5-star ratings for books I think should be mandatory reading for everyone, so don't let the 4 stars dissuade you, this was excellent!

A bit of a slow start, but toward the end I definitely couldn't stop before finding out what happened!

I actually would have liked a bit more epilogue. That's not one you usually hear!

Read it!

[Ava Fazio · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not enjoy his book very much. Although the story was well written the plot was slow and little bit hard to understand. Personally I enjoy books that have a little bit more action in them and for me this book just didn't include that. Although the book still had some very good moments overall I just wasn't the biggest fan.

[Namiko · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I saw the author's name I cried "Stephen King!" And then I saw the explanations of some baseball terms in "a note about this story", I whispered "Oh, no." It turned out that this was a story about a girl's adventure in woods and I enjoyed it.

[Denise Loy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very different kind of Stephen King.