Eleanor & Park
#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
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Community Reviews
Eleanor meets Park on the morning school bus, trying to drown out the noise with music from his Walkman. He ignores his neighbors Steve and Tina, fellow high school classmates who are chatting loudly and obnoxiously in the back of the bus. Then, Eleanor's sitting on the steps outside school, going through a mental checklist trying to figure out how she can avoid riding the bus again. We find out she's just moved, her mom doesn't have a car, and for some reason, she can't imagine calling her dad. Turns out Park knows a lot about martial arts, by the way, "because his dad was obsessed with martial arts, not because his mom was Korean". Now, Park can't deal with leaving Eleanor to fend for herself at the back of the bus, and he "hated himself for thinking like this"
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