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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mama Elizabeti

    Author Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen Illustrated by Christy Hale

    $22.95 ISBN: 9781584300021 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date:

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bein' With You This Way

    $23.95 ISBN: 9781880000052 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date:

  • 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
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