Marked by fire
By: Joyce Carol Thomas.
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; Community life -- Fiction.; Healers -- Fiction.; Traditional medicine -- Fiction.; Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.
Notes: American Book Award, 1983