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Elana Arnold

Graduate Adjunct - CLA
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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