Marked by fire

By Joyce Carol Thomas

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