Marley Dias, 11-year-old Philadelphia elementary-school student, got tired of reading about “white boys and dogs,” specifically Where the Red Fern Grows and Shilo and decided to create her own book drive.

Dias has recently successfully written a proposal for (and received) a Disney Friends for Change grant, served food to orphans in Ghana, and now has her book drive.

“’What are you going to do about it?’ [my mom] asked. And I told her I was going to start a book drive, and a specific book drive,” Dias said. “Where black girls are the main characters in the book and not background characters or minor characters.”

#1000BlackGirls was then created. Dias aims to collect 1,000 books with black girls featured; so far, she has collected 400 books and hopes to get 600 more by her deadline on Feb.1.

“I’m hoping to show that other girls can do this as well,” Dias told PhillyVoice. “I used the resources I was given, and I want people to pass that down and use the things they’re given to create more social action projects — and do it just for fun, and not make it feel like a chore.”

The books collected will be donated to a low-resources library in St. Mary, Jamaica, where Janice, Marley’s mother, grew up.