Hannah Roque

For our first book, my PLC Book Club chose to read Eleanor & Park  by Rainbow Rowell. The book Eleanor & Park  features two high school students named Park and Eleanor, that could not be any more different. Park comes from a loving family and likes to keep his head down at school, whereas Eleanor comes from a home with an abusive step-father and can't help but stand out when she's at school. The friendship, and later romance, blossoms between Park and Eleanor through their shared love of music and comic books during the short bus rides sitting next to each other. However, as Eleanor's relationship with Park progresses, her home life becomes increasingly difficult to deal with until she can't anymore. I first read this book in middle school when it first came out, but I thought it would be an interesting book to revisit, not only through an adolescent development standpoint but also as a college student. I am currently about halfway through the book, and so ...