@article{345778,
      note = {Includes "Reading Group Discussion Guide," "Joyce Carol  Thomas's Favorite Reads for Teens," and "Up Close and  Personal with Joyce Carol Thomas."},
      author = {Thomas, Joyce Carol.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/345778},
      title = {Marked by fire /},
      publisher = {Jump at the Sun/Hyperion,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {345778},
      pages = {168 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2007},
}