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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, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm and House of the Scorpion
Hiromi Goto, Half World (forthcoming fall/winter 2007)
Virginia Hamilton, Justice and Her Brothers
Justine Larbalestier, Magic or Madness (2005), Magic Lessons (2006), and Magic's Child (2007)
Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts, Voices, and Powers (forthcoming fall 2007)
Walter Mosley, 47 (Won the Parallax Award, 2006)
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Zahrah the Windseeker (Shortlist, Parallax Award, 2006, Kindred Award, 2006, Locus Award, 2006, Golden Duck Award, 2006) and The Shadow Speaker (forthcoming)
Louise Spiegler, Amethyst Road (features Australian gypsies)
Joyce Sweeney, Waiting For June
Yoshiko Uchida, A Jar of Dreams and The Best Bad Thing
Carole Wilkinson, Dragon Keeper
Susan Vaught, Stormwitch ([[winner, Kindred Award 2006)
Paul Yee, The Bone Collector's Son
Laurence Yep, Tiger's Apprentice, many others

Recommended YA non-SF featuring heroines of color

Cynthia Leitich Smith, Rain Is Not My Indian Name (non-fantasy, but highly recommended)

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

See also

List of SF featuring women of color as protagonists (for adult protagonists)
List of YA SF featuring heroines of color (for YA protagonists)
List of female characters of color (for other notable characters that are not necessarily protagonists)

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