Young adult

YA, Young Adult, and children's books could be gathered and listed here.

Here is a list to start off with, compiled by Victoria McManus. It's a list of YA books with strong female heroines of color.

Judith Berman, [[BEAR DAUGHTER Joseph Bruchac, SKELETON MAN Jane Louise Curry, THE BLACK CANARY Michael Dorris, MORNING GIRL Louise Erdrich, THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE Nancy Farmer, A GIRL NAMED DISASTER and [[THE EAR, THE EYE, AND THE ARM]] and HOUSE OF THE SCORPION Hiromi Goto, [[HALF WORLD [out fall/winter 2007] Virginia Hamilton, JUSTICE AND HER BROTHERS Ursula K. LeGuin, Earthsea trilogy, GIFTS, VOICES, and POWERS [fall 2007] Walter Mosley, 47 Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, ZAHRAH THE WINDSEEKER and [[THE SHADOW SPEAKER]] [upcoming] Cynthia Leitich Smith, RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME (non-fantasy, but highly recommended) Louise Spiegler, AMETHYST ROAD [AU gypsies] Joyce Sweeney, WAITING FOR JUNE Yoshiko Uchida, A JAR OF DREAMS and THE BEST BAD THING Carole Wilkinson, DRAGON KEEPER Susan Vaught, STORMWITCH Paul Yee, THE BONE COLLECTOR'S SON Laurence Yep, TIGER'S APPRENTICE, many others

Also:

Sharyn November also replied with some author names, but I haven't looked into them yet: Rita Williams-Garcia an na joan abelove walter dean myers (who has also done some genre)

The LJ post is here: http://oracne.livejournal.com/885281.html