Elana K. Arnold is the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning books for and about children and teens, including the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of, Printz Honor winner Damsel, and Global Read Aloud selection A Boy Called Bat and its sequels. Many of her books are Junior Library Guild selections and have frequently appeared on “Best of" book lists, including Rise: A Feminist Book Project, Kirkus Best Books of the Year, and others. Her work has been called both “devastatingly vital” and “comfortably familiar and quietly groundbreaking." Elana lives in Southern California with her family and menagerie of pets.
YOUNG ADULT
The Blood Years
Balzer & Bray, 2023
Red Hood
Balzer & Bray, 2020
Damsel
Balzer & Bray, 2018
What Girls Are Made Of
Lerner Books/Carolrhoda Lab, 2017
Infandous
Lerner Books/Carolrhoda Lab, 2015
Splendor
Random House/Delacorte, 2013
Burning
Random House/Delacorte, 2013
Sacred
Random House/Delacorte, 2012
MIDDLE GRADE
Harriet Spies
Walden Pond Press, 2023
Just Harriet
Walden Pond Press, 2022
The House That Wasn’t There
Walden Pond Press, 2020
Bat and the End of Everything
Walden Pond Press, 2019
Bat and the Waiting Game
Walden Pond Press, 2018
A Boy Called Bat
Walden Pond Press, 2017
Far From Fair
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
The Question of Miracles
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
EARLY READER
Starla Jean Cracks the Case
Roaring Brook Press, 2023
Starla Jean Takes the Cake
Roaring Brook Press, 2022
Starla Jean
Roaring Brook Press, 2021
PICTURE BOOK
All By Himself?
Beach Lane Books, 2022
Pip and Zip
Roaring Brook Press, 2022
An Ordinary Day
Beach Lane Books, 2020
What Riley Wore
Beach Lane Books, 2019