The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a 1999 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King. A pop-up book adaptation was released in 2004 with design by Kees Moerbeek and illustrations by Alan Dingman.

Trisha is nine. Her mother and her brother Pete are quarrelling about their parents' divorce as the family walks the trail, and she deliberately drops back so that she does not have to hear it. She leaves the path and fails to find her way back to them, and when she tries to cut the distance by taking a shortcut she falls down a steep bank and continues away from the trail rather than towards it. Using what she remembers from Little House on the Prairie, she keeps to a creek on the assumption that water will eventually lead her to people.

Her inventory is domestic and specific: a bottle of water, two snack cakes, a boiled egg, celery sticks, a tuna sandwich, a bottle of a soft drink, a poncho, a handheld game console and a personal cassette player. She uses the player to keep her spirits up and to listen for news of the search for her. The book's horror is largely interior.