When Marley Dias, 11, of New Jersey noticed last fall that fewer than ten percent of children’s books released in 2015 had a black person as the main character, she set a goal of collecting 1,000 books about black girls by the beginning of February to donate to children in Jamaica, a campaign she dubbed #1000blackgirlbooks. Now that she has over 4,000 books, according to NPR, she wants to make changes at home.

As a student in the West Orange Public Schools system, she said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, “I was only allowed to read books about white boys and their dogs,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “I couldn’t really connect with them.”

Now that Marley and her parents have donated six hundred of the books to a book festival in Jamaica, Marley’s mother’s birthplace—they plan to donate 1,000 more to a library and school this month—the family has added schools in Marley’s birthplace, Philadelphia, and in New Jersey, to the list.

Marley plans to use some of the books for a “black girl club,” as well, she said.

Jeffrey Rutzky, superintendent of West Orange Public Schools, said to Wall Street Journal that the school system already offers literature that “reflect[s] our diverse community and global society,” but that Marley’s book drive will enhance the selection.

“We are so proud of Marley,” he said. “Her passions and efforts are truly admirable.”

Related reading: NPR’s Morning Edition’s David Greene learned her top five picks. They include: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, which Dias called “a very important book” with “a lot of ways to interpret it”; One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia; President of the Whole Fifth Grade by Sherri Winston; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, which she says contains “good themes that could help girls—and boys—learn how to represent their voices when there’s a problem”; and Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee, and Kadir Nelson.

Image Credit: Agaton Strom for The Wall Street Journal.