Young reader builds list of #1000BlackGirlBooks
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Marley Dias, 11, was tired of reading books about "white boys and their dogs" so she began looking for stories about black girls. Here's a sampling of some of the titles she's found so far.
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In "A Chair for My Mother" by Vera B. Williams. A child, her waitress mother and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after losing their furniture in a fire.
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Jacqueline Woodson's "After Tupac and D Foster" tells the story of two girls trying to make sense of the world after the deaths of another friend and their favorite musician, Tupac Shakur.
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"Art from Her Heart" by Kathy Whitehead is a picture book biography about folk artist Clementine Hunter, who was unable to see her own work in a museum exhibit.
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"Blue Tights" by Rita Williams-Garcia is about 15-year-old Joyce, who finds a way to express herself through dance.
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"Almost Zero" is the third book in Nikki Grimes' Dyamond Daniel series, which teaches life lessons through the eyes of a third-grader.
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"Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer" is the true story of Michaela DePrince's journey from Sierra Leone to a career as a dancer in the United States.
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"Amazing Grace" by Mary Hoffman tells the story of a girl who wants to star as Peter Pan in the school play.
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