Girl

By Bart Bare

Subjects: Runaways, fiction, High schools, Sex role, Schools, fiction, Foster home care, fiction, Foster home care, Fiction, Children's fiction, Mountain life, southern states, fiction, Runaways, Mountain life, Tennessee, fiction, Sex role, fiction, North carolina, fiction, Schools

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.