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