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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Black All Around
Author Patricia Hubbell
$14.95 ISBN: 9781600606434 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2010-09-17 -
Destiny's Gift
Author Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
$11.95 ISBN: 9781600606441 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2010-09-17 -
Tankborn
Author Karen Sandler
$23.95 ISBN: 9781600606625 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2011-09-16 -
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 -
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 -
Awakening
Author Karen Sandler
$25.95 ISBN: 9781600609824 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2013-04-09 -
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 -
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 -
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