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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  • Saturday at The New You

    Author Barbara E. Barber Illustrated by Anna Rich

    $19.95 ISBN: 9781880000069 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2002-02-19
  • 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
  • Seed Magic

    Author Jane Buchanan Illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb

    $22.95 ISBN: 9781561456222 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Peachtree Publishers Publication Date: 2012-04-01
  • Send One Angel Down

    Author Virginia Frances Schwartz

    $12.95 ISBN: 9781550051407 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2005-02-15
  • Singing with Momma Lou

    Author Linda Jacobs Altman Illustrated by Larry Johnson

    $13.95 ISBN: 9781620142271 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2015-03-06
  • Sweet Potato Pie

    Author Kathleen D. Lindsey Illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb

    $13.95 ISBN: 9781600602771 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2009-08-28
  • Tankborn

    Author Karen Sandler

    $23.95 ISBN: 9781600606625 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2011-09-16
  • Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells : The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist

    Author Philip Dray Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn

    $25.95 ISBN: 9781561454174 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Peachtree Publishers Publication Date: 2008-03-01
  • 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
  • Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree

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

    $14.95 ISBN: 9781880000335 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2002-01-30
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