The Free Girl Initiative Book Drive
May 01, 2013
By Katrice
Next month MVL friend and fellow black girl activist Ebony Janice Moore, founder of The Free Girl Initiative, will make her first junket to Africa on an outreach trip dedicated to empowering black girls in Kenya to shape their own communities. Brilliant work.
The Free Girl Initiative, a non-profit organization with a mission to utilize artistic and mentoring programs throughout Africa, will launch this summer with tutoring, and the teaching of yoga and entrepreneurial skills, while implementing an arts and mentoring program to high school aged girls in Nyahururu, Kenya.
Booklist
The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Why the Caged bird Sings by Maya Angelou
A tree grows in brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kid
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Midnights Dream by William Shakespeare
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafar
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helfer
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
What They Found: Love on 145th by Walter Dean Myers
The Riddles of Epsilon by Christine Morton-Shaw
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
13 Little Blue Envelopes and Girl At Sea by Maureen Johnson
The Maximum Ride series (The Angel Experiment, Schools Out Forever, Saving the
World and Other Extreme Sports, The Final Warning) by James Patterson
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and The Far Sweet Thing by Libba Bray
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
Uglies series by Scott Westernfeld
Define “Normal” by Julie Ann Peters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Bad Boy by Dream Jordan
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
Kick by Walter Dean Myers
Resistance 1 by Carla Jablonski
Rotters by Daniel Kraus
You Killed Wesley Payne by Sean Beaudoin
Mail book donations to:
The Free Girl Initiative
C/o Alysa Campbell
2263 Silver Maple Circle
Ellenwood, GA 30294
Books can also be sent after June 1st for this ongoing initiative.
12 comments
What a wonderful initiative and glad that I am able to send a gift. I'm all about supporting anything that supports our young women!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bessie! Me too. I thought, this is a wonderful work.
DeleteI'm loving this initiative and this list! I already see some of my favorite books on the list. Will make a note to purchase one and mail to the Free Girl Initiative!
ReplyDeleteGreat!! Thank you so much, Busola. The thought of gifting books just makes me smile.
DeleteThis is a great initiative. Please post a couple of reminders prior to June 1.
ReplyDeleteLook for them on facebook. : )
DeleteI have a few of these, will be sending! Thanks for posting! :-)
ReplyDeleteExcellent!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for getting the word out Katrice! --Alysa
ReplyDeleteI have a few books on this list so I'll definitely be sending them in. Sorry they'll be after June 1st as I'm just getting around to this post.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great initiative. Glad to see Bad Boy made the list! I will be sending a copy asap.
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