Name: Book Discussion Featuring Children’s & Young Adult Author, Angela Cervantes
Start: 2024-11-09T10:30:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-09T12:00:00-06:00
Location: 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, MO, United States, Missouri 64123

$Book Discussion Featuring Children\u2019s & Young Adult Author, Angela Cervantes$

Saturday, November 9
Nuestro Legado/Our Legacy Series: Book Discussion Featuring Children’s & Young Adult Author, Angela Cervantes
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
JE Dunn Construction Teater
Admission is Pay What You Can
Space Is Limited | RSVP Required
Children ages 7+ are welcome to attend
Angela Cervantes is the acclaimed author of several popular children’s novels including the junior novelizations for Disney/Pixar’s animated films, Coco and Encanto. Cervantes’ other novels include Lety Out Loud, which won a 2020 Pura Belpré Honor Award from the American Library Association. She has received multiple starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, and School Library Journal for her novels like the Frida Kahlo-inspired mystery, Me, Frida, and The Secret of the Peacock Ring; Allie, First At Last; and Gaby, Lost and Found.
Her latest children’s novel is The Cursed Moon, which has been named Missouri’s Mark Twain 2025-2026 MASL Award Reading List; the Texas Bluebonnet Reading Award List, and Florida’s Sunshine State Young Readers Award’s List.
Additionally, Cervantes also 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, a young soccer player who advocates for a kinder and more compassionate world starting with her community and on the soccer field. 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.