Eleanor and Park

Rowell, Rainbow (2013). Eleanor and park. NY: St. Martin’s Press.  This is a love story about Eleanor and Park.  Eleanor is a young girl who is subject to a domestic violent home.  She is what the school shames and ridicules.  Park is popular and everyone loves him.  One day they both meet on the bus and Park realizes she has more in common with him and becomes attracted to him.  Eleanor is receiving nasty threats against her, she dismisses them thinking it was from Tina her enemy.  These threats came from her father, so she decides that she has to run away from home, because her mother will not take up for her.  So Eleanor and Park have to end this great love relationship, so that Eleanor can be safe and happy.  This book has great topics to discuss with teens, such as privilege and poverty.  The intended audience for this book is between 16 and up because of the strong language.  This book fits Havighurst’s Theory of Developmental Task that adolescents need to learn how to get along with peers and adolescents undergo changing relationships with parents.