Books like Mountain Top Mystery

There is a definite change from the first few books to the rest in terms of the amount of supervision the kids are kept under. They're given some limited freedom, but always a carefully laid adult safety net.Except this story involves Indians who seem to be rather condescendingly treated, including a high-school aged Indian boy who is left virtually unsupervised with little adult concern. Value is placed on Indian culture, but as something to be collected and studied by the White men, not a worthy thing in itself. I do believe Ms. Warner is struggling to at least some degree to be more modern and progressive... to value humans equally and not be insensitive, but she remains a product of her time.