Baylor, Byrd. A God on Every Mountain Top: Stories of Southwest Indian Mountains. New York: Scribner's, 1981.

Illustrated by Carol Brown. Folk tales from Southwest Indian culture explaining the significance and importance of mountains to their beliefs.

Paulsen, Gary. Canyons. New York: Delacorte, 1990. Two boys experience similar rites of passage into manhood—Coyote Runs, an Apache youth in 1864; Brennan Cole, a young man who discovers a link to Coyote Run's past more than one hundred years later.

Yep, Laurence. Child of the Owl. New York: Harper, 1977. Her mother dead and her father in the hospital, young Casey searches for her roots and her cultural traditions in the San Francisco Chinatown of her grandmother.

She learns of the importance of owls, beliefs, and self-reliance while she encounters the customs of her ancestors.