I beg to differ: for all its qualities, Eloquent JavaScript is not a very beginner-friendly book. It goes quite deep into many JS intricaties and contains a lot of challenging tasks for people just discovering programming.
I have recommended to beginners before and most of them thanked me. I skimmed the page for your book but did not see the link to the free version. I am on mobile so maybe just missed it. Says read free here, but here is not a link. Clicking the book takes you to Amazon.
More beginner-focused alternatives are https://www.freecodecamp.org and https://thejsway.net.
Disclaimer: I've been teaching programming professionally for 15+ years and wrote the latter.