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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, and her 2018 novel Damsel was named a Michael L. Printz Award 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 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 Master of Fine Arts 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. Discover the Elana K Arnold popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elana K Arnold books.