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