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New Voices Award Winners & Honors Collection

Established in 2000, the New Voices Award is an annual award given by LEE & LOW BOOKS to an unpublished author of color for a picture book manuscript. The award was established to combat the low numbers of authors of color in children’s book publishing and to help new authors break into the field.

Collection of 15 books: $205.25

Finding the Music / En pos de la música

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The Electric Slide and Kai

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Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds

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It Jes' Happened

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Seaside Dream

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Janna and the Kings

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Love Twelve Miles Long

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Raymond's Perfect Present

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Bird

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Ghosts for Breakfast

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Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!

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Juna's Jar

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As Fast As Words Could Fly

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The Blue Roses

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The Three Lucys

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  • Front cover for As Fast As Words Could Fly by Pamela Tuck and Eric Velasquez
    As Fast As Words Could Fly
    By Pamela M. Tuck, Eric Velasquez
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    As Fast As Words Could Fly

    As Fast As Words Could Fly

    By Pamela M. Tuck, Eric Velasquez
    The story of Mason Steele, an African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, who relies on his inner strength and his typing skills to break racial barriers after he begins attending a "whites-only" high school.

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  • Front cover for Bird by Zetta Elliott and Shadra Strickland
    Bird
    By Zetta Elliott, Shadra Strickland
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    Bird

    Bird

    By Zetta Elliott, Shadra Strickland
    In this gentle, award-winning picture book, an African American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he struggles to make sense of his grandfather's death and his brother's drug addiction.

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  • Front cover for Finding the Music / En pos de la música by Jennifer Torres and Renato Alarcão
    Finding the Music / En pos de la música
    By Jennifer Torres, Renato Alarcão
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    Finding the Music / En pos de la música

    Finding the Music / En pos de la música

    By Jennifer Torres, Renato Alarcão
    Bilingual English/Spanish. In this cheerful book, a determined Latina girl accidentally breaks her grandfather's vihuela and ventures into her community to find someone who can fix the instrument, leading her to discover his legacy as a mariachi player.

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  • Front cover for Ghosts for Breakfast by Stanley Todd Terasaki and Shelly Shinjo
    Ghosts for Breakfast
    By Stanley Todd Terasaki, Shelly Shinjo
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    Ghosts for Breakfast

    Ghosts for Breakfast

    By Stanley Todd Terasaki, Shelly Shinjo
    When the Troublesome Triplets complain that they have seen ghosts in Farmer Tanaka's field, Papa sets off with his son to hunt the ghosts in this fun story set in 1920s California.

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  • Front cover for It Jes' Happened by Don Tate and R. Gregory Christie
    It Jes' Happened
    When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
    By Don Tate, R. Gregory Christie
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    It Jes' Happened

    It Jes' Happened

    When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
    By Don Tate, R. Gregory Christie
    The inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama.

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  • Front cover for Janna and the Kings by Patricia Smith and Aaron Boyd
      Janna and the Kings
      By Patricia Smith, Aaron Boyd
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      Janna and the Kings

      Janna and the Kings

      By Patricia Smith, Aaron Boyd
      Saturdays are special for Janna. That's when she and Granddaddy spend the whole day together.

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    • Front cover for Juna's Jar by Jane Park and Felicia Hoshino
      Juna's Jar
      By Jane Park, Felicia Hoshino
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      Juna's Jar

      Juna's Jar

      By Jane Park, Felicia Hoshino
      After Juna's best friend moves away, Juna, an imaginative Korean American girl, goes on magical adventures by way of her special kimchi jar.

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    • Front cover for Love Twelve Miles Long by Glenda Armand and Colin Bootman
      Love Twelve Miles Long
      By Glenda Armand, Colin Bootman
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      Love Twelve Miles Long

      Love Twelve Miles Long

      By Glenda Armand, Colin Bootman
      A moving story about young Frederick Douglass and his mother, who walks twelve miles at night from a nearby plantation to visit him.

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    • Front cover for Raymond's Perfect Present by Therese On Louie and Suling Wang
      Raymond's Perfect Present
      By Therese On Louie, Suling Wang
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      Raymond's Perfect Present

      Raymond's Perfect Present

      By Therese On Louie, Suling Wang
      When he tries to surprise his sick mother with flowers that he grew, a Chinese American boy receives a nice surprise of his own.

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    • Front cover for Seaside Dream by Janet Costa Bates and Lambert Davis
      Seaside Dream
      By Janet Costa Bates, Lambert Davis
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      Seaside Dream

      Seaside Dream

      By Janet Costa Bates, Lambert Davis
      In this tender story of immigration, a young girl finds a way to give her grandmother the perfect present and the courage to plan a trip to her home country, Cape Verde.

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    • Front cover for Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds by Paula Yoo and Dom Lee
      Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds
      The Sammy Lee Story
      By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
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      Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds

      Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds

      The Sammy Lee Story
      By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
      The inspirational true story of Sammy Lee, a Korean American who overcame discrimination to realize both his father's desire that he become a doctor and his own dream of becoming an Olympic champion diver.

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    • Front cover for Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee! by Andrea J. Loney and Keith Mallett
      Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
      By Andrea J. Loney, Keith Mallett
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      Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!

      Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!

      By Andrea J. Loney, Keith Mallett
      A biography of James Van Der Zee, innovative and celebrated African American photographer of the Harlem Renaissance.

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    • Front cover for The Blue Roses by Linda Boyden and Amy Córdova
        The Blue Roses
        By Linda Boyden, Amy Córdova
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        The Blue Roses

        The Blue Roses

        By Linda Boyden, Amy Córdova
        A modern-day Native American girl learns to understand the cycle of life after her grandfather dies.

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      • Front cover for The Electric Slide and Kai by Kelly J. Baptist and Darnell Johnson
        The Electric Slide and Kai
        By Kelly J. Baptist, Darnell Johnson
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        The Electric Slide and Kai

        The Electric Slide and Kai

        By Kelly J. Baptist, Darnell Johnson
        Kai is the only member of his family who can't get the dance steps to the Electric Slide right. But Kai is determined to bust a move in this fun and sweet celebration of African American families.

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      • Front cover for The Three Lucys by Hayan Charara and Sara Kahn
        The Three Lucys
        By Hayan Charara, Sara Kahn
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        The Three Lucys

        The Three Lucys

        By Hayan Charara, Sara Kahn
        After a young Lebanese boy loses one of his beloved cats when his village comes under attack, he must learn to cope with loss and hope for a peaceful future.

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