Rhode Island Teen Book Review

Eleanor and Park is a fiction novel by Rainbow Rowell. In this story, the characters, Eleanor and Park, have many differences on the outside, but on the inside, they are more similar than they appear. Just by looking at them, anyone would be able to tell that they come from two completely different households as Park lives in a rather wealthy, loving household, while Eleanor lives in a poor, dysfunctional household. Though their home lives are worlds apart, they do find things in common with each other such as their love for comic books and music. So, they are different because of the dissimilar households they live in, yet they are similar because of their common love for comics and music.

The Newbery Honor award is given to the author with the biggest contribution to American literature for children. This book was chosen as the 2015 winner along with “The Crossover” by Kwame Alexander. The National Book Award is chosen by a board of judges, this particular book beat over 294 other titles. Both of these awards lets me assume that it is going to be a very quality book, and there is a high possibility that most people will like it.

The book “Eleanor & Park” was written by Rainbow Rowell and was published in February 2013 by St. Martin’s Press. Rainbow Rowell is an American author who writes young adult novels. It is a romance novel between two misfit students in 1986. The novel is portrayed from two different viewpoints, from Eleanor’s and Park’s who live in Omaha, Nebraska. Eleanor was a 16-year-old girl with big red curly hair and big body, she has pale skin with dark eyes. Park was a 16-year-old boy who is half Korean with nice black hair and had an average body, not ripped nor skinny. The love story was unusual because not only the main characters have contrast look but their social and family life is different too. This essay will provide summary of the book “Eleanor & Park” and provide the response focusing primarily on bullying, domestic abuse, and child abuse from all the chapters in the book.

The Caldecott Medal identifies picture books that have compelling illustrations that give readers a rich and detailed visualization of the words they are reading or being read. The illustrations also add depth and additional meaning to the stories. Teachers who choose these books may rest assured that they are providing quality and inspiring educational experiences to their young students. The Newberry Medal is awarded to books that are outstanding contributions to children’s literature. It is awarded by a committee of experts who review many submissions and select the best of each year. These selections are well-written, compelling, and have well-thought-out plots and vibrantly developed characters. Students will gain great experiences reading Newberry Medal and Honors books. The Coretta Scott King Award recognizes books that further Martin Luther King Jr’s vision of unity and diversity. Teachers may use these books to be sure that they are teaching their students about diversity in engaging and exciting ways.

Now if you have pre teens or teenagers. The diary of the wimpy kid By: Jeff Kinney is a great series for the more experienced young reader. As well as The Percy Jackson series By: Rick Riordon. I personally have read these books as well. They are very entertaining and fun to

Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park and Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker display social class’s affect on the characters’ lives. Eleanor and Park contrasts the high and low classes through the family and relationship love and violence. Eleanor comes from an abusive home that is part of the lower class, while Park’s family is more fortunate and intense than Eleanor’s household. Ship Breaker creates a parallel between the two classes through violence. However, family relationships in different classes are portrayed like in Rowell’s novel. The lower class deals with betrayal and the upper class have loyalty. In Eleanor and Park and Ship Breaker, the relationships and interactions between families and others in society are different depending on

Eleanor dynamically changes as she spends time with Park because he accepts her for the person she is. Eleanor's first ride on the school bus is awkward. Nobody lets her sit with them and she knows why. They won’t let her

Hi everyone! This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending The North Texas Teen Book Festical in Irving, TX. It was so much fun, and honestly it was one of the best weekends of my life. This post is just an overview of some pictures and the things I did. Let 's begin! (All the bloggers/booktubers I mention will be linked at the end!)

In Eleanor and Park, Eleanor is in a bad environment at home. She doesn’t know how to get help, or what she should do about the whole situation, so she stays. It wasn’t until she met Park, that they fell in love, and she realised he could help her. The harassment from her step-dad got so bad that she knew she had to leave, and Park steps in as a hero helping her and changing her life for the better. Page 294, paragraph 10 is a note Park left for his parents after feeling the need to take Eleanor to her uncle's out in Minnesota.

Within their communities, many character are discriminated against because of the way they look and act. In her search for work, Willie realizes that she cannot even be associated with her husband because the color of her skin prevents him from being able to get work. When they search for work, “They no longer [walk] together on the sidewalk...they never [touch]. She never [calls] his name anymore” (208). Willie often describes Robert as looking like a white man, in fact, others might even seen their marriage as shameful. Willie, who wants to become a singer, is also told that she is “Too dark...Jazzing’s only for the light girls” (209). Willie’s unequal treatment reveals an implicit bias against dark-skinned individuals in the musical industry, particularly from a socioeconomic standpoint. Similarly, Marjorie is mocked by the other black girls at her high school because of the way she speaks, and is told that “[She sounds] like a white girl. White girl. White girl” (269). Marjorie is surrounded by a culture where “white girl” is an insult because it makes her different. In a larger sense, the expectations of what it means to be “black” contribute to cultural rifts within the black community and a sense that there is a “correct” way to be

She goes from a place of not having to worry about her identity, to the complete opposite of wanting to assimilate to a new identity. She relocates with her family from a gang infested neighborhood an east eighty street in L.A to Verdugo Street that had beautifully manicured lawns and streets without sidewalks. There she meets Melvin Bukeford, the boy who is despised by all the kids in the school because of his accent and his physical built and also for being the new kid. They share a bond between themselves as outsiders. Avery the black kid, an outsider looking in desperately trying to fit in, while Melvin an outsider, not because of race, but because of “his pointed ears…pointed nose and the freckles splattered all over his permanently pink face” (Johnson 2) How sad it must feel to be rejected by your race and to feel like you do not belong in your own

“It was only a matter of seconds before the cop had thrown the guy to the sidewalk and pressed him face first into the concrete.” (Reynolds 36). In the realistic fiction book All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, Quinn, A senior boy in high school has witnessed the unnecessary beating of a black boy by a white cop. Quinn’s best friend Guzzo and his brother Paul practically raised him after his father died in war. Paul had become a cop in his father's honor and taught him how to play basketball which led Quinn to making the team. The boy who was beaten by Paul was later discovered on the news to be Rashad, a teammate of Quinn's on the basketball team. Quinn is now forced to make the decision to stand up for what is right and defend Rashad who

Eleanor & Park is a young adult novel by Rainbow Rowell. This story is praised and loved by all ages because of it’s ability to relate to the reader with it’s varied issues and themes that anyone can relate to. From romance, to bullying and violence, it has a little something for everyone. Overall themes are an important asset to this young adult novel, since they are the ideas that Rainbow Rowell explores, and helps the story take shape. It all goes back into the “coming of age” theme. The protagonists, Eleanor and Park, are two 16 year olds facing life’s obstacles, such as bullying, abuse, and even romance. This book teaches many lessons that one reader might relate to; although taking place in 1986, the lessons still relate to this day, from relationships, to issues at home. Eleanor & Park is an exceptional book that even the most hardened reader can relate to, this book handles a lot of issues and themes that anyone can relate to, and dishes out life lessons that will impact the reader, it’s written in such a realistic way, that it feels like a real story, and that is not in any way fictional. This book is a great piece of fiction that blends in pop culture, issues, and romance all in one that anyone can read.

When kids go out in the sun they raise their levels of Vitamin D and that’s an important vitamin for kid’s health. The Vitamin they get from the sun protects kids from future bone problems and heart disease. In “Petals on the Wind” a girl name Carrie was deprived of the sun which caused her to have a lot of problems health wise and socially. Since she was not allowed to go out she didn’t received Vitamin D making it hard for her to grow since her body couldn’t regulate her calcium correctly. This also caused her to be antisocial for two different reasons. She was antisocial because she was smaller than rest of the kids and she got bullied because of her size and she never learned how to play with other kids. She always saw kids playing with each other pretending to fight off dragons but she never did since she was deprived from being

One of the things about reading this book is that although it was set in the 80’s, it didn’t feel dated at all. I was never taken out of the story, by the inclusion of items like tape players or the lack of internet access. I think this can partly be attributed to the fact that this is such a character driven story. You care about Eleanor and Park and their connection. The technology woven around the story is incidental to their emotions and thoughts. I also think Rainbow Rowell was incredibly clever about the music, graphic novels, and bands she chose to include. Watchman, the Smiths, the Cure, X-Men are all cultural landmarks. They have perhaps become even cooler now than they were to a teen of the 1980’s. A teen of today (especially those