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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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 -
From the Lands of the Night
Author Tololwa Mollel Illustrated by Darrell McCalla
$19.95 ISBN: 9780889954984 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Red Deer Press Inc Publication Date: 2013-12-28 -
The Gospel Truth
Author Caroline Pignat
$14.95 ISBN: 9780889954939 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Red Deer Press Inc Publication Date: 2014-10-01 -
Grandma's Purple Flowers
Author Adjoa J. Burrowes
$11.95 ISBN: 9781600603433 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2010-02-04 -
The Heaven Shop
Author Deborah Ellis
$12.95 ISBN: 9781554550869 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2007-10-17 -
Initiation
Author Virginia Frances Schwartz
$12.95 ISBN: 9781550050547 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2004-09-08 -
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 -
The Legend of Freedom Hill
Author Linda Jacobs Altman Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu
$22.95 ISBN: 9781584300038 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2003-03-27 -
Lost Goat Lane
Author Rosa Jordan
$12.95 ISBN: 9781550419320 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2005-04-26 -
Mama Elizabeti
Author Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen Illustrated by Christy Hale
$22.95 ISBN: 9781584300021 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: