Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Written By: Rainbow Rowell

Genre: Young adult

Synopsis:

"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 one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Format: Hardcover, 328 Pages

Setting: Nebraska

Awards: Georgia Peach Book Award (2014), All About Romance (AAR) Annual Reader Poll for Best Young Adult Romance (2014), Odyssey Award Nominee (2014), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2014), Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award for Young Adults (2015), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2015), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award (2014), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2014), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2016), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (2014), Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction (2013), Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuurprijs for vertaald boek (2015), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Young Adult (2016), Lincoln Award (2015), DABWAHA Romance Tournament Nominee for Best Young Adult Romance (2014), North Carolina Young Adult Book Award for High School (2016), Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction (2013) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018), Green Mountain Book Award Nominee (2015), The Magnolia Award for 9-12 (2015), Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2016), Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera independiente (2013)

Goodreads Rating: 3.95

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