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“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 the course of one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love – and just how hard it pulled you under.

Get a sneak peek of Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor and Park (available Feburary 26, 2013) with an excerpt of Chapters 27 & 28.

Chapter 27?
Eleanor

Eleanor felt better the next morning.  Mornings usually got the best of her.

This morning, she woke up with that stupid cat curled up against her like it couldn't tell that she'd never liked him or cats in general.

And then her mom gave her a fried egg sandwich that Richie hadn't wanted, and pinned an old, chipped glass flower to Eleanor's jacket.

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