After the sudden death of his parents, 14-year-old Mark Talbot's comfortable world crashes around him. His uncle, following instructions in his father's will, sends Mark to New Zealand to live with the Maori people that his father knew and loved as a young man. Among these brown-skinned Polynesians, Mark begins to grow to manhood, not just in body but in mind and spirit.

Alfred King, wealthy, retired, and in his seventies is traveling in Kenya on a photo safari when he meets Koro, a small Masai boy at a roadside stop who wants to "practice his English." On a sudden impulse, King asks him if he would like to go to America. The boy is overjoyed and takes King to his village to receive permission from the tribal elders. They tell him that Koro has a unique gift: he hears strange music that often leads him to people needing help. The elders tell King that Koro is very special to his tribe, but if the boy wants to go they will regretfully give permission. Back in...

A Navajo boy named Clay Walker is chosen to become an emissary for his people in the white world beyond the reservation. He fights this appointment as if it were a curse-only to learn, in training for it, that his destiny is inescapable. Through his grandfather, White Horse, he learns first of the old ways, so that upon leaving them he will truly be a walker in two worlds. * * * *

Robert B. Fox spent 35 years working with young people as teacher, counselor, caseworker and parole officer. He also lived for three years as a missionary among the Maori people of New Zealand who made a deep...