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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.
African AmericansCommunity lifeFictionHealersJuvenile fictionTraditional medicineReading Level-Grade 9Reading Level-Grade 11Reading Level-Grade 10Reading Level-Grade 12Oklahoma, fictionChildren's fiction