Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorceda branch of the Appalachian Trail Lost for days, wandering farther and farther astray, Trisha has only her portable radio for coe fan of Tom Gordon, a Boston Red Sox relief pitcher, she listens to baseball games and fantasizes that her hero will save her Nature isn&39;t her only adversary, though - soh the dark woods