Elana K. Arnold

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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, [1] [2] and her 2018 novel Damsel was named a Michael L. Printz Award Honor title in 2019. [3] [4]

Contents

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 H.B. 374, “Sensitive Materials In Schools." [5]

Biography

Arnold obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from University of California, Irvine. [6] In 1998, she Master of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis. [7] [6]

Arnold now teaches with Hamline University's Master of Fine Arts program focusing on Writing for Children and Young Adults. [8]

She lives in Southern California. [8]

Awards and honors

Nine of Arnold's book are Junior Library Guild selections: A Boy Called Bat (2017), [9] Bat and the Waiting Game (2018), [10] Damsel (2018), [11] Bat at the End of Everything (2019), [12] The House That Wasn't There (2021), [13] Red Hood (2021), [14] Starla Jean (2021), [15] and Just Harriet (2022). [16]

In 2021, Publishers Weekly named Red Hood one of the top ten young adult novels of the year. [14]

Awards for Arnold's writing
YearTitleAwardResultRef
2015InfaduousMoonbeam Children's Book Award for Young Adult Fiction - GeneralWinner [17]
2016 Amelia Bloomer Book List Selection [18]
Westchester Fiction AwardWinner [19]
2017What Girls Are Made Of California Book Award Finalist [8]
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist [8]
2018 Amelia Bloomer Book List Selection [20]
Damsel Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for YouthSelection [21]
2019 Amelia Bloomer Book List Top 10 [22] [23]
Michael L. Printz Award Honor [3] [4]
2021Red Hood Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Selection [24]
Amelia Bloomer Book List Top 10 [25]

Publications

Young adult novels

Middle grade books

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

Reception

In 2024 the Republican-dominated Utah Legislature passed a law [26] mandating the removal of books deemed objectionable from all Utah public schools (including charter schools). On 2 August 2024 the Utah State School Board released its first list of banned books. Elana K. Arnold's young adult novel What Girls Are Made Of was on this list. [27]

Banning

In 2024 the book Infandus was banned in Texas by the Katy Independent School District on the basis that the novel is "adopting, supporting, or promoting gender fluidity" [28] despite also pronouncing a bullying policy that protects infringements on the rights of the student. [29]

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