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Questions 1. How did Trisha originally get lost in the woods? 2. What is her prized possession she has with her? And who is her idol? 3. Explain Trisha's dream when she was lost in the woods. 4. What is the "thing" that is following Trisha while she is lost in the woods? 5. How does Trisha get out of the woods? 6. Who does Trisha meet at the end of the book? What is it actually? 7. What belonging, besides, her baseball hat, got her to survive through the woods mentally in the beginning? 8. Who is Tom Gordon and how does he relate to the story? 9. Why is Trisha's brother Pete so angry all the time?

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Answers 1. She had to go to the bathroom and decided to go off the trail to pee. Her mom and brother were fighting so they did not notice she left. She thought she could meet up with them more down the trail so she kept walking farther off the trail but eventually realized that she was lost. 2. Her baseball hat signed by her favorite baseball player, Tom Gordon of the Boston Red Sox. Tom Gordon is her idol. 3. She sees three people. Two men in white and one in black. The two in white were her dad and her old teacher. They warn her there is danger ahead of her, that she will run out of food, and then the one in black is a head, but is made of bees. It is her fears. It tells her that something is watching her and that the police is not looking for and she is all alone in the woods. 4. The God of the Lost is following Trisha when she is in the woods. It is a wasp-like person who is hiding out in the trees. 5. She remembers that all streams/rivers eventually lead to an ocean. She followed the river and eventually found a road. A man was hunting and he saw her. 6. She meets the God of the Lost. It is actually a bear. 7. She had her Walkman with her. She used it to listen to the Red Sox's games. She also listened to the news to see if anyone was looking for her in the woods. She also had a lunch that with her. When she ate, she only ate little pieces of her food so she would have food for later. 8. Tom Gordon is the pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He is also her idol. Trisha is in love with him and uses him as her imaginary guide throughout the book for support as she makes her way through the forest. She thinks about him all the time throughout the story and she has dreams about him when she is lost and she thinks he is really there with her. 9. The reason that Pete is always so angry is because his parents got divorced. He was forced to move to somewhere he never even knew existed. He is also mad because he does not have any friends at his new school.