Angela Cervantes is the award-winning author of popular children’s novels like LETY OUT LOUD which was a 2020 Pura Belpré Honor Book. Her latest book includes soccer-inspired whodunit THE MYSTERY OF THE STOLEN WORLD CUP TROPHY (On sale now). Her other novels include the scary novel THE CURSED MOON which won Florida’s Sunshine State Young Readers Award and Kansas’ William Allen White Award.
Angela’s Anomalies 53 series includes book 1: INTO THE SHADOWS which is the author’s first book in the children’s fantasy genre. Book 2 DRAGON DREAMS is available for preorder at your fave bookstore now and releases on July 28, 2026.
Angela’s other novel’s includes the popular American Girls’ 2026 Girl of the Year: RAQUEL REYES SAVES THE WEDDING; MARITZA: LEAD WITH YOUR HEART (American Girls; 2021). Angela’s first mystery novel was ME, FRIDA AND THE SECRET OF THE PEACOCK RING. Her debut novel was GABY, LOST AND FOUND followed by the Kirkus starred novel ALLIE, FIRST AT LAST.
In addition to her original novels, Angela authored the junior novels for Disney/Pixar’s award-winning animated-films, Coco and Encanto.
Angela’s short stories have been featured in Chicken Soup for The Latino Soul and the Young Adult anthology Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America.
Angela is a daughter of a retired elementary-school teacher who instilled in her a love for reading and storytelling. Angela writes from her home in Kansas City. When she’s not writing, Angela enjoys reading, running, gazing up at clouds, and taking advantage of Taco Tuesdays.
Career Timeline & Highlights
- In 2026, THE MYSTERY OF THE STOLEN WORLD CUP TROPHY is published by Henry Holt books marking Angela’s return to the mystery book genre.
- In 2026, Angela’s first scary novel THE CURSED MOON wins Kansas’ William Allen White award.
- In 2025, Angela pens the story for American Girls’ 2026 Girl of the Year: Raquel Reyes!
- In 2025, Harper Collins publishes Anomalies 53: Into The Shadows.
- THE CURSED MOON wins Florida’s Sunshine States Young Readers Award for 2024-2025
- In 2025, THE CURSED MOON is named to several state reading list including Missouri, Kansas, South Carolina, Texas and Florida.
- In 2023, THE CURSED MOON is published by Scholastic Press on September 5, 2023.
- Encanto: The Junior Novel is published by Disney Random House on Oct. 12, 2021
- In 2021, Maritza: Lead With Your Heart is published by American Girl Books.
- Angela’s short story Yoli Calderón and Principal Hayes is included in the Mexican American anthology Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America.
- Lety Out Loud is named a 2020 Pura Belpré Honor Book Award.
- Lety Out Loud is published by Scholastic Press on Feb. 26, 2019
- Me, Frida and the Secret of the Peacock Ring is named as a finalist for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List (2019-2020)
- Me, Frida and the Secret of the Peacock Ring is published by Scholastic Press on March 27, 2018
- In October 2017, Disney Random House publishes Coco: The Junior Novel
- In Nov, 2017, Angela attends the Hollywood premiere of the Disney/Pixar movie, Coco.
- In March 2016, Allie, First at Last is published by Scholastic.
- Gaby, Lost and Found, Angela’s first middle grade novel, is published by Scholastic on July 29, 2013
- In 2008, The Kansas City Star Magazine named Angela an Emerging Artists (Thank you John Mark Eberhart!)
- In 2007, Angela won third place for Creative Nonfiction in the Missouri Review’s audio competition for her story “House of Women.”
- In 2007, Angela’s short story “Ten Hail Marys” wins the Kansas City Voices Best of Prose Award (Whispering Prairie Press)
- In 2005, Angela’s short story, Pork-Chop Sandwiches is published in “Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul”
- In 2001, along with Chicana poetry group Las Poetas, Angela opened for El Vez at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City.
