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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Heaven Shop

    Author Deborah Ellis

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Grandma's Purple Flowers

    Author Adjoa J. Burrowes

    $11.95 ISBN: 9781600603433 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2010-02-04

  • Catching the Moon : The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream

    Author Crystal Hubbard

    $14.95 ISBN: 9781600605727 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2010-09-17
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