Marked by fire /
Thomas, Joyce Carol.
Marked by fire / Joyce Carol Thomas. - New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, 1982. - 172 p. ; 18 cm. - An Avon/Flare book .
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.
American Book Award, 1983
038079327X (pbk.) : $2.25
81066479
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Community life--Fiction.
Healers--Fiction.
Traditional medicine--Fiction.
Oklahoma--Fiction.
PZ7.T36696 / Mar
[Fic]
Marked by fire / Joyce Carol Thomas. - New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, 1982. - 172 p. ; 18 cm. - An Avon/Flare book .
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.
American Book Award, 1983
038079327X (pbk.) : $2.25
81066479
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Community life--Fiction.
Healers--Fiction.
Traditional medicine--Fiction.
Oklahoma--Fiction.
PZ7.T36696 / Mar
[Fic]