Title: Marked by fire
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.
Subjects: African Americans, Community life, Fiction, Healers, Juvenile fiction, Traditional medicine, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Oklahoma, fiction, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Fire, fiction
Places: Oklahoma