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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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 -
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 -
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 -
Bein' With You This Way
$13.95 ISBN: 9781880000267 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: -
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 -
Allie's Basketball Dream
Author Barbara E. Barber Illustrated by Darryl Ligasan
$14.95 ISBN: 9781880000724 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2002-01-30