Everything you need to understand or teach Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis.
Be Not Far from Me is a YA novel by Mindy McGinnis. When track star Ashley goes camping in the Smoky Mountains with her friends, she expects to spend the night laughing with her friends and kissing her boyfriend. But when a dramatic argument sends her running drunkenly through the night, she injures her foot and passes out in the grass. When she wakes up, she realizes she is lost, so she sets out to fight her way back out of the woods. The novel explores the power of nature, environmental conservation, the ethics of eating animals, guilt, love, and change.