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Lee & Low Books is dedicated to serving the needs of today’s educators and students. Our diversity book collections both satisfy the requirements of national standards with the thematic and linguistic rigor necessary for academic success and provide texts that all students can identify with and enjoy. Students can explore the extensive collections of contemporary authors, characters, and historic figures of color; Educators can feel confident that our award-winning books offer the complexity, quality, and range of each grade level necessary to prepare students as scholars and citizens.

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10 Books in Spanish Soaring Onto Shelves

Stock your shelves and summer reading lists with these 10 books in Spanish, available now or soaring onto shelves near you soon Continue reading

 

Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® Launches Read Aloud Campaign to Protect the Freedom to Read

Brightly colored stripes behind the words "60 for 60 Read Aloud Campaign Protect the Freedom to Read" with kids of many races holding up books and the Freedom Schools logo
At Lee and Low, we are thrilled to support the efforts of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools as they commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project

 

PRESS RELEASE: LEE & LOW BOOKS INC. BECOMES FIRST PUBLISHER TO WIN ALAN AWARD

New York, NY, June 28, 2024 LEE & LOW BOOKS INC. is the recipient of the 2024 ALAN Award, marking the first time a publishing company has been honored Continue reading

 

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A Full Moon is Rising

By Marilyn Singer

Illustrated by Julia Cairns

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As Fast As Words Could Fly

By Pamela Tuck

Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

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She Was the First!

By Katheryn Russell-Brown

Illustrated by Eric Velasquez