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A Note from National Book Award Finalist Elana K. Arnold

National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold shares a note to What Girls Are Made Of readers and an excerpt from the book.Read more

Why We Need YA Novels with Unlikable Female Protagonists

By Alix Reid, Editorial Director of Carolrhoda Lab™ I had the very great pleasure of working with Elana K. Arnold on her YA novel, What Girls Are Made Of, which is a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature finalist. (You can read more about that here.)Read more

National Book Award Finalist: What Girls Are Made Of

CBS This Morning announced the National Book Award finalists on October 4, and Elana K. Arnold’s YA novel What Girls Are Made Of is one of the five finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature!Read more

What Girls Are Made Of Longlisted for the National Book Award

The New Yorker posted the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist on September 12, and Elana K. Arnold’s YA novel What Girls Are Made Of is one of the ten titles on the list!Read more

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