Eleanor & Park

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Hardcover, 352 pages

Published Oct. 4, 2016 by St Martin s Griffin, St. Martin's Griffin.

ISBN:
978-1-250-12708-2
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OCLC Number:
872272668

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5 stars (2 reviews)

Two misfits. One extraordinary love.

Eleanor

...Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough... Eleanor.

Park

...He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises... Park.

Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds -- smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

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4 stars

This is a book geared toward young adults. It deals with bullying, not fitting in, poverty, and abuse, through the development of an unlikely romance. There is plenty of humour to make the negative stuff more palatable, and the characters are likeable, believable, and interesting. However, the story really started to drag towards the end. My family was listening to this audio book on a long car trip, and everyone was really enjoying it for the first two-thirds but wishing for the author to get on with it during the last third. The printed version might not have seemed as dragged out, though, especially for a fast reader.

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