Request #268 From Dara

 I am! Looking for a book that had a deep effect.  Although I can’t remember exactly when I read it because I’ve never stopped reading YA 🙂 70s? 80s? All I remember about it was that she was an outcast (I think and most likely). Toward the end of the book, she climbed a hill or a mountain and lay down in the grasses. She died there and it was followed by a (long?) description of how her consciousness remained, describing the decomposition of her body and going back into the earth. It was a small paperback.