A girl, trying to deal with the fallout of her parents divorce, gets seperated from her mother and brother in the woods.
This book tells of her trials as she struggles to survive. Helping keep her from panic is her transistor radio. She uses it to listen to baseball games, focusing on her favorite player, Tom Gordon.

Good descriptions of woods and how easily one can become lost in them.

King develops his characters very well. It's probably his greatest strength as a writer.

This book, like most of King's works, was fairly easy to predict. With the exception of a couple minor plot twists, I had it figured out by the time I was a third of the way through the book.

I did go and get my old compass from my camping gear to carry in the car for a while.

Glad to be home in front of the fire with my feet up and a cup of hot chocolate beside me.

While his books are easy to figure out, he is none the less a master of the short suspense story!

If you like supernatural suspense, King's a very good read.

Some of the language is a bit raw and there is one sexual encounter between Trish's parents. It's not graphic, but it's definitely a sex scene.

King's been finding ways to scare us for years. He really hasn't changed at all.

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