Marked by fire
By: Joyce Carol Thomas.
Edition: 1st Jump at the Sun ed.
Publisher: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781423101437
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.