Lety Out Loud: A Wish Novel

Product Description

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 Muñoz’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 Belpré Honor Award Book

Review

“Young readers will be drawn in by the sweet pet portraits yet they will leave with much more: an empathetic understanding of the immigrant experience in America. A touching story about the power of language, pets, and friendship.” —
Kirkus Reviews, starred review”A potential “mirror” book for young immigrants to the U.S. and ELL students, and one that can be an empathy-building “sliding glass door” book for other readers. Compelling and relatable, this is highly recommended for all middle grade collections.” — School Library Journal, starred review

“Young readers will be drawn in by the sweet pet portraits yet they will leave with much more: an empathetic understanding of the immigrant experience in America. A touching story about the power of language, pets, and friendship.” —
Kirkus Reviews, starred review”A potential “mirror” book for young immigrants to the U.S. and ELL students, and one that can be an empathy-building “sliding glass door” book for other readers. Compelling and relatable, this is highly recommended for all middle grade collections.” — School Library Journal, starred review

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.