Why was a girl in the movie?

Comment:

I have a question is Shiloh going to be a continued book? I was also wondering why the movie had a girl and not david that made me mad. I also didn’t like that Marty didn’t tell the cops on Judd.

Phyllis replied:

I think the producers thought that there wasn’t enough about girls in the book, and they wanted a movie that would appeal to the most people. So they invited a girl with a boy’s name (!) Sam, and put her in the story.  There are three more Shiloh books in the series, though, and two of them are movies that include David Howard.