{"id":2264,"date":"2014-02-25T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:48:08","slug":"eleanor-park-by-rainbow-rowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eleanor<\/p>\n

Eleanor & Park<\/em> takes place in 1986, so it is technically “historical fiction” to the teens I serve today…\u00a0 I mean, they weren’t even BORN yet!\u00a0 (Wow, that makes me feel old!)\u00a0 Though it was fun to reminisce about big hair, bold makeup, “Walkman” tape players, and phones on a cord, this story was not a fluffy look back on the 80s.\u00a0 It was a touching story about how one person can make all the difference when the whole world seems to be against you.\u00a0 About how halting conversations about shared interests, like comic books and music, can open the door to friendship.\u00a0 And about how a barely-there friendship can blossom and turn into love.\u00a0 Park’s family is “Leave it to Beaver” perfect, and he is relatively popular at school.\u00a0 Eleanor’s home life is horrid and the kids at school take great pleasure in bullying her about her clothes, weight, and unruly red hair.\u00a0 And yet, Park can’t help himself.\u00a0 He doesn’t care what everyone else thinks about “his” Eleanor.\u00a0 He only knows he will do whatever it takes to try and make her happy.<\/p>\n

To be completely honest, there was only one thing I didn’t like about this book… It ended!\u00a0 Seriously, though, I *really* hope that the ending was not just a “form your own opinion about what happened” thing but, instead, left it open for a sequel.\u00a0 A girl can hope, right?!?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eleanor & Park takes place in 1986, so it is technically “historical fiction” to the teens I serve today…\u00a0 I mean, they weren’t even BORN yet!\u00a0 (Wow, that makes me feel old!)\u00a0 Though it was fun to reminisce about big hair, bold makeup, “Walkman” tape players, and phones on a cord, this story was not … Continue reading Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}