The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (ISBN 978-1-57731-593-3)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (ISBN 0-590-35342-X)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4063/is_200301/ai_n9183049/