Elana Kuczynski Arnold is an American children's and young adult author. Her 2017 novel ''What Girls Are Made Of'' was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and her 2018 novel ''Damsel'' was named a

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Honor title in 2019. In 2022, three of Arnold's books (''Damsel, Red Hood'', and ''What Girls Are Made Of'' ) were listed among 52 novels banned by the Alpine School District following the implementation of Utah law H.B. 374, “Sensitive Materials In Schools."

Biography

Arnold obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from University of California, Irvine. In 1998, she Master of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis. Arnold now teaches with Hamline University's

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program focusing on Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Southern California.

Awards and honors

Nine of Arnold's book are Junior Library Guild selections: ''A Boy Called Bat'' (2017), ''Bat and the Waiting Game'' (2018), ''Damsel'' (2018), ''Bat at the End of Everything'' (2019), ''The House That Wasn't There'' (2021), ''Red Hood'' (2021), ''Starla Jean'' (2021), and ''Just Harriet'' (2022). In 2021, '' Publishers Weekly'' named ''Red Hood'' one of the top ten young adult novels of the year.

Publications

Young adult novels

*''Sacred'' (2012) *''Burning'' (2013) *''Splendor'' (2013) *''Infandous'' (2015) *''What Girls Are Made Of'' (2017) *''Damsel'' (2018) *''Red Hood'' (2020) *''The Blood Years'' (2022)

Middle grade books

*''The Question of Miracles'' (2015) *''Far From Fair '' (2016) *''The House That Wasn't There'' (2021) *''Just Harriet'' (2022)

A Boy Called Bat series

*''A Boy Called Bat'' (2017) *''Bat and the Waiting Game'' (2018) *''Bat and the End of Everything'' (2019)

Starla Jean series

*''Starla Jean'', illustrated by A. N. Kang (2021) *''Starla Jean Takes The Cake'' (2022) *''Starla Jean Cracks the Case'' (2023)

Picture books

*''What Riley Wore'' (2019) *''All by Himself?'' (2022) *''Pip and Zip'' (2022)

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arnold, Elana American women children's writers American children's writers 21st-century American women writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Davis alumni University of California, Irvine alumni Hamline University faculty