Answer: desperate
Explanation: In "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez, the tone that a reader should use when reading aloud to express Yoyo's feelings is desperate. Yoyo's mother is always trying to invent something. As Yoyo has to write a speech to deliver at teacher's day she wants to write it by herself without any help. She is not happy about having to speak in public. And she is desperate about her mother's and father's insistence on helping her.