About

Angela Cervantes is the award-winning children’s author of several popular children's novels including Lety Out Loud, which won a 2020 Pura Belpré Honor Award from the American Library Association.

Additionally, Ms. Cervantes collaborated with American Girl Dolls for the novel Maritza: Lead With Your Heart, which features American Girl’s first contemporary Mexican-American doll, Maritza Ochoa. Her next book with American Girl which will be launched next week is the highly anticipated 2026 Girl Of The Year: Raquel Reyes!

Ms. Cervantes also collaborated with Disney/Pixar to write the junior novelizations for animated films, Coco and Encanto.

Her short stories have been featured in Chicken Soup for The Latino Soul and the Young Adult anthology Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America.

Ms. Cervantes began writing stories when growing up in Topeka, Kansas because she wanted books that reflected her Mexican American and Latino community. Today, she’s sold over a million books and writes from her home in Shawnee, Kansas.
Her upcoming projects include a World Cup themed mystery novel titled “The Mystery of The Stolen World Cup Trophy” which releases right before the 2026 Men’s World Cup Tournament. Angela’s most recent book Anomalies 53: Into the Shadows is a fantasy adventure series with Harper Collins Publishers and is on bookshelves now.

Featured Work

The Cursed Moon

2023

Rafael Fuentes isn't easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. Rafa has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional hauntings seem like no big deal. Rafa's incarcerated mom is being released from jail soon, and will be coming to live with him, his sister, and their grandparents. For the first time in a while, Rafa feels a pit of fear growing in his stomach.

To take his mind off his mom's return, Rafa spends an evening crafting the scariest ghost story he's ever told. As an eerie blood moon hangs in the sky, Rafa tells a group of friends about The Caretaker. The Caretaker is an evil ghost who lures unsuspecting kids into the neighborhood pond . . . and they don't ever come out. Rafa is really proud of his latest creation, until strange things start to happen around him. With a sinking feeling, Rafa realizes the Caretaker is real. Rafa has brought the ghost to life-and only he can stop him.

Other Works

  • Anomalies 53: Into The Shadows

    2025