Frustrated by the lack of books about black girls in her school curriculum, Marley Dias, an 11-year-old girl from New Jersey, launched this campaign to collect 1000 books where black girls are the main characters. She wants children's books that feature black female leads so that she and her peers have more fictional characters to look up to. The #1000blackgirlbooks project is her BAM social action project for 2016.

The following list is the books we sell where black girls are the main characters.

Books about Black Girls

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  • Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree

    Author William Miller Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu

    $22.95 ISBN: 9781880000144 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2002-02-19

  • Elizabeti's Doll

    $22.95 ISBN: 9781880000700 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date:

  • Brave Music of a Distant Drum

    Author Manu Herbstein

    $12.95 ISBN: 9780889954700 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Red Deer Press Inc Publication Date: 2011-10-04

  • The Gospel Truth

    Author Caroline Pignat

    $14.95 ISBN: 9780889954939 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Red Deer Press Inc Publication Date: 2014-10-01

  • Initiation

    Author Virginia Frances Schwartz

    $12.95 ISBN: 9781550050547 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2004-09-08

  • Send One Angel Down

    Author Virginia Frances Schwartz

    $12.95 ISBN: 9781550051407 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2005-02-15

  • Lost Goat Lane

    Author Rosa Jordan

    $12.95 ISBN: 9781550419320 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2005-04-26

  • The Heaven Shop

    Author Deborah Ellis

    $12.95 ISBN: 9781554550869 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2007-10-17

  • Elizabeti's Doll

    $14.95 ISBN: 9781584300816 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date:

  • Elizabeti’s School

    Author Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen Illustrated by Christy Hale

    $14.95 ISBN: 9781600602344 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2007-10-12
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