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"Up the Learning Tree" Teacher's Guide
Synopsis
Up the Learning Tree takes place in the South prior to the Civil War. Henry Bell, an enslaved child, is not allowed to attend school or be educated in any way. However, when he ...
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Social and Emotional Learning Diverse Reading List
Discover our educator favorites for SEL read-alouds to pair with your curriculum! These exemplar texts will help you model and explore strategies for tackling challenges and building community. Both fiction and nonfiction titles feature protagonis...
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Webinars
Lee & Low Books webinars offer a range of professional development opportunities for classroom and library settings featuring relevant activities and award-winning diverse books.
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Trauma-Informed Diverse Reading List
Many children experience trauma, or adverse childhood experiences, and go through times of extreme stress. Trauma has the ability to impact children’s learning, social interactions and relationships, and overall well-being. Literature can be a saf...
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2017 New Visions Award Winners
Author Olivia Abtahi and Luisana Duarte Armendáriz have won the fifth annual New Visions Award for their novels, Twin Flames and The Regent Enigma, respectively.
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2019 New Visions Award Winner
Author Tracy Occomy Crowder has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key.
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Getting Published: Resources on the Web
Getting published is an often discussed topic, especially here in LEE & LOW’s Writers & Illustrators Section. But there’s a big wide web world outside of here! Vast resources exist in web country -- finding what you want is of course THE adventure.
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2019 New Voices Award Winner
Belen Medina Cabot of San Francisco, California, is an honor winner of the company’s twentieth annual New Voices Award.
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2018 New Visions Award Winners
Author Monica Zepeda has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Boys of the Beast. Michelle Jones Coles’ manuscript Woke received the New Visions Award Honor.
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2020 New Visions Award Winners
Tiffany Golden won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Rikki and Rai: The Everyday and Sometimes Epic Adventures of the Tucker Sisters. The honor goes to Ana Rodriguez Ellickson for Roman the Renegade.
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2021 New Visions Award Winners
Nicki Jay won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, The Marassa: Birth*Life*Death Book I.
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Voice as Background and Foundation
Recently a manuscript was sent to me that had a good story that was well worked out and told in a clear, straightforward way that made it easy to read and engaging. But the material will never find a publisher, at least not in its present form. Why?
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2009 New Voices Award Winners
Tiare Williams Solorzano of Citrus Heights, California, is the Honor winner of our tenth annual New Voices Award.
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Diverse Summer Reading List
Lee & Low Books is committed to meeting the needs of educators by providing award-winning, diverse books for today’s young readers! Check out our selection of summer reading books for purchase below, and find FREE resources including Teacher Guide...
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Multilingual Educator: The Journey Toward Literacy Begins at Birth: A Personal Narrative
DAD IS READING TO INFANT, Photo by infant’s mother Eva Lin Fahey (author’s daughter) and with permission of father, Nick Floyd 2/22
This essay by author Jean Ciborowski Fahey, Ph. D. originally appeared in the CABE 2023 Edition of Multilingual...
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Book Bans Hit Record High According to American Library Association Report
The number of demands to ban or restrict library materials nearly doubled in 2022, according to a report from the American Library Association.
Graphic created by the American Library Association
“A book challenge is a demand to remove a...
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8 Books Exploring How We Take Care of Our Mental Health
We all know that taking care of our physical health is crucial to surviving. Unfortunately, we don’t always address an aspect of our health that affects us just as much as our physical health does: our mental health.
Young people all...
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Word in Black Articles: Why Resources for Black Students and Black Books Matter
Senior Literacy Manager Katie Potter weighs in on how we can meet the needs of Black students and the importance of Black books in these two articles from Word in Black. Word in Black is a groundbreaking collaboration of the nation’s lea...
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