Lety Out Loud: A Wish Novel

Award-winning author Angela Cervantes returns to the fan favorite animal shelter featured in Gaby, Lost and Found, with a heartfeltnovel about friendship and finding your voice.

Can Lety find her voice before it's too late?Lety Mu oz's first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the animal shelter because the dogs and cats there don't care if she can't always find the right words. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance.But classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles-so he devises a competition to determine the official shelter scribe. Whoever gets their animals adopted the fastest wins. Lety agrees, but she's worried that if the shelter finds out about the contest, they'll kick her out of the volunteer program. Then she'll never be able to adopt Spike, her favorite dog at the shelter A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019A New York Public Library Best Book of 2019A 2020 Pura Belpr Honor Award Book

Author: Angela Cervantes
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 05/05/2020
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781338159356
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 500947 / Lety Out Loud


Award: Pura Belpre Award - Honor Book

About the Author
Angela Cervantes is a poet, storyteller, and animal lover. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in various publications, and she has written the novels Gaby, Lost and Found and Allie, First at Last. When Angela is not writing, she enjoys hanging out with her husband in Kansas and eating fish tacos every chance she gets. Keep up with Angela at angelacervantes.com.