Abstract. This paper presents a new numerical approach, i.e., discontinuous Legendre wavelet Galerkin (DLWG) technique, to solve the Lane-Emden equations. This scheme incorporates Legendre wavelet into discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method, thus it has the advantages of both wavelet Galerkin (WG) method and DG technique. Specifically, the variational formulation of the equation and numerical fluxes are first derived and clearly calculated, then the Lane-Emden equations are converted into solutions to systems of equations. It is pointed that the proposed approach needs less storage space and execution time than the other methods because of the use of discontinuous elements producing lower dimensional, block-diagonal and sparse mass matrices. Furthermore, numerical experiments demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of this technique.