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Black Girl Character Books

  • For Our Daughters

  • Poppy’s Family Patterns

  • Sparrow Loves Birds (Sparrow Loves Animals, 1)

  • Imani Finds the Right Notes (Hair Magic (Read Woke ™ Chapter Books))

  • Imani the Superhero (Hair Magic (Read Woke ™ Chapter Books))

  • Imani and the Great Hair Experiment (Hair Magic (Read Woke ™ Chapter Books))

  • Parker’s Big Feelings: Ready-to-Read Level 1 (A Parker Curry Book)

  • Do You Know Them?: Families Lost and Found After the Civil War

  • Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair

  • Is This Love? (Marley)

  • Oprah Winfrey: A Little Golden Book Biography

  • Love, Lah Lah

  • She Persisted: Opal Lee

  • Small-Girl Toni and the Quest for Gold

  • Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller

  • A Cup of Love: Relationship Goals for Kids

  • Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton

  • Kiki Finds Her Voice: Be True to You and Embrace Your God-Given Gifts

  • Forever and Always

  • If My Hair Had a Voice

  • Hello Coco!: Suds, Songs, and Aunt Fancy’s Salad

  • The Year We Learned to Fly

  • Hair Story

  • My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay

  • The Princess of Picky Eating Tries New Foods (Delicious and Nutritious)

  • Loving My Locs: A book about embracing your Locs (Keisha’s Self-Love and Happiness)

  • Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic

  • Sibling Love

  • I Love Being Me! (Curly Crew Series)

  • Counting Sheep Won’t Help Us Sleep

  • Oh Yeah, Blessed!

  • Believe

  • Beautiful Curly Me

  • “Daddy Why Am I Brown?”: A healthy conversation about skin color and family.

  • Party: A Mystery

  • Grandma, Why?

  • Coco Loves Her Curly Hair (The Little Coco Series)

  • Brenaya the bee

  • She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm

  • Beautiful Girl, Do You Know?: A Christian Children’s Book