YA lit? Native American myth-based novel

[thenthsnowflake]

This book existed by 2003 at least; it was in my school library so it was probably published before then. I barely remember the plot except for a few incidents. The protagonist was a boy or man, and at some point he and his... girlfriend, I guess, made a deal with some kind of supernatural beings, who temporarily killed them by touching them over their hearts. I remember that at the very end, he was going to lead his people to live in "the world in the lake". The book was a small paperback, in English, in a school library in the USA.

I read this book a little too young to really understand it, and it's been haunting me. My thanks for helping me track it down to read it again with more age and experience.

EDIT: Through some more googling and exploring, I found the book. TThe book is "Anpao: an American Indian Odyssey" and is by Jamake Highwater (born Jackie Marks) who apparently claimed a Native American background he did not possess. Still glad to track down this weird mythic story.

I have two books

[roriebean]

Ok hey I have two books that I really can't remember a lot about.

First book, this is the one I really want to get. Ok so it's kinda a dystopian novel and this girl gets "rescued" by these people but she doesn't trust them so she breaks into the leaders office. To do this undetected I'm pretty sure she had to swim through something and in the ocean. When she was in his office, I think she found something about his daughter.

The second book I read like 5 years ago and it was about a girl that had powers and she was getting henna tattoos with this boy and she started seeing birds being slaughtered in a vision and she hurts the boy. She then gets sent to her grandma who lives in like Texas or Arizona.

That's all I remember please help.