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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Secret to Freedom
Author Marcia Vaughan Illustrated by Larry Johnson
$22.95 ISBN: 9781584300212 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2002-01-30 -
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 -
Elizabeti's Doll
$14.95 ISBN: 9781584300816 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: -
Elizabeti's Doll
$22.95 ISBN: 9781880000700 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: -
Mama Elizabeti
Author Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen Illustrated by Christy Hale
$22.95 ISBN: 9781584300021 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: -
Janna and the Kings
Author Patricia Smith Illustrated by Aaron Boyd
$14.95 ISBN: 9781620142530 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2016-11-07 -
Send One Angel Down
Author Virginia Frances Schwartz
$12.95 ISBN: 9781550051407 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2005-02-15 -
Initiation
Author Virginia Frances Schwartz
$12.95 ISBN: 9781550050547 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2004-09-08 -
Tankborn
Author Karen Sandler
$23.95 ISBN: 9781600606625 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2011-09-16 -
Awakening
Author Karen Sandler
$25.95 ISBN: 9781600609824 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2013-04-09