Trisha McFarland is nine and lost in the woods.  She was hiking with her brother and her mother, and she needed to pee.  So she took a side-road, and because she didn't want to get too far behind, she took what she thought was a short-cut.  It would turn out to be a short-cut of several days...

Her brother and her mother are too occupied with their own little things.  Mother wants them to heal the wound left after a divorce, while her brother (about fourteen) just wants to criticize.  And little Trisha is caught between her love for her relatives, and being just tired of the constant arguments.  Well, now she has other things on her mind: survival.  And she gets help from an unexpected source: her favorite baseball-player Tom Gordon, with whom she has conversations for miles and miles.  Still, it keeps her mood up, but will it keep her body fit enough to stand what is ahead of her?

I don't know much more of baseball other than that it exists, and I don't know a lot about nine-year old girls, certainly not how they act when they are lost in the woods.  But it's obvious that Stephen King does, and he made her come alive in my mind.  I felt for her, I felt with her.  Good story.  Good climax.