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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
BardDracula
Since: Feb, 2016

It was a middle grade coming of age/finding oneself novel about a protagonist whose separated parents had named her after a mountain in Appalachia, and in order to disciver herself she runs away from home to hike the trail. She meets a trail buddy she nicknames Beagle, who's an adult she forms a crush on (it's not reciprocated). At some point her distant father finds her and tries to convince her to come home or at least go back to mom.