Girl+Who+Loved+Tom+Gordon+Plot+Summary

**//Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon// Plot Summary**  This book is about a young girl, Trisha, who goes on a hiking trip with her mom and brother. They are constantly fighting, so when she is on the trail she goes off to pee to get away from the screaming and yelling. When she is done she loses track of the main trail and gets lost. She travels for days trying to find her way to civilization. During the day she walks and eats berries that she finds in the woods, and at night she escapes to a Boston Red Sox game by listening to her walkman and waiting for her favorite pitcher, Tom Gordon to save the game. She believes that if Tom can help win and get the save that she herself will be saved. While traveling she notices that something is following her, a black bear. At the end of the book she comes face to face with the bear and hurts it by hitting it with her Walkman. She is saved by a man, Travis Herrick, who shoots the bear and carries the sick girl to the local hospital. She is surrounded by her family at the hospital, and she holds up her walkman to her dad to symbolize that she beat her fear. Trisha finally sinks into sleep.