Lety Out Loud

Name: Lety Out Loud
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Angela Cervantes
ISBN: 9781666185003

Author: Angela Cervantes

Narrator: Victoria Villarreal

Unabridged: 4 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/31/2023

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Award-winning author Angela Cervantes returns to the fan favorite animal shelter featured in Gaby, Lost and Found, with a heartfelt novel 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 2019

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2019

A 2020 Pura Belpré Honor Award Book

About Angela Cervantes

Angela Cervantes is the author of the middle grade novels Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring; Gaby, Lost and Found; Allie, First at Last; and Lety Out Loud, which won a 2020 Pura Belpre Honor Award. She writes from her home in Kansas City, Kansas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on November 20, 2018

What a refreshing, sweet, and absolutely heartwarming book! It feels like a hug not only to you, but to the animals in your life. Lety is attending day camp with her friends at an animal shelter. She's both nervous and excited about writing pet profiles, since English is her second language. This is......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on March 09, 2019

A wonderful story about finding your voice, adorable animals, and unexpected friendship. A must-read.......more

Goodreads review by Laura on April 07, 2020

I highly recommend this feel good story about a young Latinx girl finding her voice...and some dog love! ❤️🐶 . . . Lety is volunteering at a shelter with her friends for the summer. She wants to be the shelter scribe and write profiles for the animals that need homes, but she lacks confidence in her wri......more

Goodreads review by Alina on December 16, 2019

If you're looking for a feel-good, Middle grade chapter book, then this is definitely the book for you! This book made me smile countless times and the ending left me feeling so warm inside. It also gracefully covers difficult topics like racism against Latinos in the U.S. and the struggles of being......more

Goodreads review by Roxy on December 15, 2019

The book “Lety Out Loud” by Angela Cervantes is about an English learner named Lety who volunteers at a shelter. Lety and her best friends were volunteering at an animal shelter summer camp called Furry Friends. The shelter needs somebody to write animal profiles, and just as Lety is about to sign,......more