Eleanor & Park
By Rainbow Rowell
- Release Date: 2013-02-26
- Genre: Romance for Young Adults
Description
#1 New York Times Best Seller!
"Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book Review
Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be, she says, we're 16.
What about Romeo and Juliet?
Shallow, confused, then dead.
I love you, Park says.
Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be.
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under.
A New York Times Best Seller!
A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book.
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013
A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013
An NPR Best Book of 2013
Reviews
A book to reread again and again
5By Ameelia_baxterI read this book for the first time when I was a few years younger than Eleanor and Park. I loved it then and still can’t get enough of it now. This book is so sweet and so heartbreaking. Now in my 20s I am just as captivated by the book as I was the first time. This is one of the few books I’ve read again and again.Absolutely Not!!!
1By tacuddlesI stopped at chapter 8 when I realized how racist this book is. Absolutely not!!! I can’t even finish this filth!Loved it
4By Hunter742But God the ending hurtsA book like none other. And elephants.
5By LizSweetwaterI read this in one day because I couldn’t stop. Love friendship school and evil. And good.Unique and sweet
5By nels2714This book made me look at love in a new way. I read it in a day and a half and I still think about it two months later. Why are you still reading this review? GO READ THE BOOK!!Amazing dialogue
5By Caroline GoodnightIf you like conflict and love all at once, please get this book.Everything previous reviews said it would be
5By Jamiam987Crazy good book....Soft top
5By moong 23The Isuzu 1916 the later CapriOdin .A book that makes you feel
5By Colleenbee21It’s so good. It’s so sad. It’s so captivating and beautiful. I loved it. Rainbow, you completely nailed how to describe a first love.Book
5By KaylaZen779Beautiful<3
5By LLclaudiaHonestly was a great book. I wish it would’ve been longer, it only took me a week to read :( And definitely wished for a different ending. If I could read it all over again I wouldEleanor & Park
4By crb4ncsuSweet and thoughtful love story that is an easy, fun read.Offensive to BIPOCs.
1By JustRead000000It describes a main character (half Korean and half white) in stereotypical terms which are offensive. The character never grows from this but rather hates everything to do with his Korean attributes (not his actual heritage because that would mean researching things). It’s very problematic in how it describes minor black characters as well. This is why we need “in their own voices” in publishing.LOVED IT
5By 😍😍smilyThis book is very sad and that’s one of the reasons why i couldn’t put it down! I loved the ending of the book and the different backgrounds each character has, definitely read this book!A bittersweet romance.
5By PamelaxoEleanor & Park has been a favorite of mine since high school English class. I fell in love with the book and couldn’t help myself from reading ahead. I don’t normally review things, but this book is worth it. It’s cute, and witty. But also heartbreaking and gut wrenching at times. I so badly wished they would’ve wrote a sequel, but sometimes it’s best to leave things as they are. The book does use crude language so if you’re not into that sort of thing then I would steer clear of it.Hmm
3By WhitmbenI’m still not sure how I feel about this book. It captured young love perfectly and beautifully yet it was so sad. A book that just left me feeling depressed afterward.Amazing
5By Dancing Gal235I wish I could give this book six stars. This novel is so romantic and so interesting that I just couldn’t put it down. A great young adult book that everyone who likes John Green would also love.Love Hate
5By figjjfjvnnendhcufktkwThis book was beautiful it was slow and steady nothing to bold or just censored it was just right I definitely recommend to other romance readers it was bitter sweet love it was the popular falling for the social bottom they were a perfect match and their love was so ooo but I was annoying to see how slow it was and cute and I also cried because I was jealous of their love for each other the end was really infuriating but interesting and if you are really emotional don’t read it because it was a lot and I have some what of a tear dam built into me and I almost never cry and I’m in middle school so yeah really good book a definite recommendationLove
5By jcaylor_99Great book
