Title: Girl
Description: After her mother dies, Loren Creek, a precocious fourteen-year-old, flees the Tennessee foster-care system for North Carolina where, with the help of a curmudgeonly mountain man, she evades detection by pretending to be a boy, even becoming place-kicker on the high school football team.
Subjects: Runaways, Sex role, High schools, Schools, Foster home care, Mountain life, Fiction, Children's fiction, Runaways, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Schools, fiction, Foster home care, fiction, Mountain life, southern states, fiction, Tennessee, fiction, North carolina, fiction
Places: Appalachian Region, Boone (N.C.), Piney Flats (Tenn.)