What are the motifs in Daughter of the Mountains by Louise S. Rankin?

An important recurring idea of Daughter of the Mountains is that of courage and determination. Momo is not even a teenager when she sets out to find Pempa. Before then, she was determined to get a red-gold Lhasa Terrier no matter what. From age four until she got Pempa, she prayed constantly for a dog and eventually furiously spun the prayer wheel at the Kargayu Temple until she was told that her prayers would be answered. When Pempa disappears, Momo wastes no time going after him. It does not even occur to her to give up.