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
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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
Two Authors of Feminist Books for Teens on Tour [Guest Post by Amber J. Keyser]
YA author Amber J. Keyser writes about feminist books for teens and her “Feminism and the Female Body” book tour with Elana K. Arnold, author of National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist title What Girls Are Made Of.
A shorter version of this post appeared in this week’s Book Riot’s “What’s Up in YA” September 18 newsletter.
As soon as I heard about Elana K. Arnold’s most recent novel, What Girls Are Made Of, I knew we had to tour together. Her book is a visceral dissection of the enormous pressures on teenage girls. It demands to know why girls are considered consumable objects—sugar and spice—to be devoured by the nearest hungry mouth. She felt similarly about my novel, Pointe, Claw, also a ferocious exploration of the territory of the female body and what sacrifices must be made to claim it as one’s own.
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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