Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult LiteratureĮleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book.Ī Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013Ī New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013 A New York Times Best Seller!Ī 2014 Michael L. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under. 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. #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.

(Mar.About the Book Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this stunning debut tells thestory of two star-crossed misfits falling in love for the first time.

Agent: Christopher Schelling, Selectric Artists. When the situation turns dangerous, Rowell keeps things surprising, and the solution-imperfect but believable-maintains the novel’s delicate balance of light and dark. Their love is believable and thrilling, but it isn’t simple: Eleanor’s family is broke, and her stepfather abuses her mother. Adult author Rowell (Attachments), making her YA debut, has a gift for showing what Eleanor and Park, who tell the story in alternating segments, like and admire about each other. And slowly, tantalizingly, something more. When he realizes she’s reading his comics over his shoulder, a silent friendship is born.

Too nice not to let her sit next to him, Park is alternately resentful and guilty for not being kinder to her. Tall, with bright red hair and a dress code all her own, she’s an instant target. Half-Korean sophomore Park Sheridan is getting through high school by lying low, listening to the Smiths (it’s 1986), reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen comics, never raising his hand in class, and avoiding the kids he grew up with.

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell