Stargirl

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Summary: An interesting book that leaves you in wonder.
Review: I enjoyed this book because it has a great point made, which is to be yourself and don't change because anyone wants you too. I enjoyed reading this and hearing about what interesting things "Stargirl" was doing. She was the oddball but also the most caring character. She carried around a ukelele, a pet rat named cinnamon, and she wore extremely weird clothes because her mom was a seemstress for Hollywood. I recommend this to all teenage girls who are trying to find themselves because it is about a girl who tries to become popular and realizes she likes herself better.

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Summary: Stargirl !
Review: Someone I'd met gave me this book as we said good-bye when she left Connecticut. I've read the pages over and over and I still don't get it. I don't understand the plot. I was enchanted by stargirl and I understood her behavior yet I don't understand the others' behavior. I guess that I will have to write my second review when I finally get it and if I ever get it.

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Summary: AN AWESOME BOOK
Review: All I have to say is wow. This is an amazing book for teenagers, or just about anybody. It helps you understand how happy you are just being yourself and not caring what other people think of you. Stargirl is a must read for everyone. The plot is great, it is one of those books that you can't put down. It teaches you an amazing message in the meantime. If you haven't read Stargirl and are considering buying it, you are making the right choice.

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Summary: Very good book
Review: I really enjoyed this book because it shows how high school can really be. Star girl is excluded because she is different but a cool guy likes her. This is a really good book. I was surprised to read that it was for younger readers then myself but I still enjoyed it. I would recommend reading it.

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Summary: An Enchanting Book
Review: Stargirl was so real it hurts. If you want to read a book that is about life and living and being exactly who you are no matter what, then this is the book. Stargirl seemed to be unreal at first because you can not understand how it is possible that she acts like she does, giving no thought to herself or her own needs. She seems like some sort of martyr or saint. However, as the book progresses, you learn that not only is she human, but she also has the same feelings as humans. She hurts, she's selfish, and she wants to be loved. The thing that makes her different is her ability to overcome these human emotions and love the way humans are really meant to, uncondionally and without selfishness. This story teaches you to not be afraid of who you are on the inside. It teaches you to love and live and appreciate everything for what it really is.

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Summary: Awesome book!!!!
Review: Stargirl was a great book! She is very different from everyone else and doesn't care what anyone thinks about her. I would highly recomend reading this book. It is the best book I have ever read and it is very well written!

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Summary: This book was Great!!!!
Review: Star Girl was the first Jerry Spinelli book I had read. It told about how life really could treat you both negitive and positive. I loved this book and I read it again. After I had finished the book it kept me a daze for a few days. I highly recommend it for kids 10 and up. I am 12 and really could relate to it. I would like to thank Mr. Spinelli for a great book and Crash was also a great book.

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Summary: This book stinks
Review: It's a fantasy in disguise. I am homeschooled and I disagree completely and a lot of people who had to read this for school now treat me differently because of the stereotype Stargirl creates for homeschoolers.

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Summary: Great read
Review: Not an Ordinary Teenager
Stargirl, is a realistic fiction novel by Jerry Spinelli. The book tells about individuality, love, hate, friendship, peer pressure, and differences within it's story.
In Mica Arizona, Leo Borloc is entering 11th grade. All the students could talk about that day was "her". She called herself Stargirl Caraway, she wore long flowing dresses and kimonos, carried her pet rat everywhere, and played the ukulele at lunch. She stunned Mica high like nothing had before. She was different in a way they couldn't quite grasp. She showed them something they had never seen before, something that would change them forever.
Stargirl entered public school for her first time in 10th grade; she had been home schooled before then. Her dreams of being a lunch truck driver, and her random acts of kindness brought excitement to the hallways. The other kids think she was just a plant by the school to stir things up. Later her peers realize that's not true and she is instantly the most popular person in school, individuality sprouts up everywhere and on everyone. She becomes a cheerleader too, and Leo is in love with her. She too falls for him. Leo thought it was too perfect to be true, and he was right.
The school turns on Stargirl, they can't take their own cheerleader, cheering for the other team, or just how different she is. She is shunned for everything that makes her different, everything that once made her popular. Leo desperately tells her to become the one thing that can destroy her; normal. With the help of Leo, she becomes like a typical teenager. Something is still wrong, she is not happy, she goes back to non-conformity and eventually leaves Mica, Arizona all together, leaving nothing but memories for lucky ones that's knew her.
The first thing that really gets the reader's attention in Stargirl is how familiar the characters, setting, and plot is. Leo, Kevin, Hillary and Wayne, all characters in Stargirl, act, dress, speak and react to others just like people the reader might know. Just like actions seen in about every high school today. The easiest part to relate to in the story is when Leo is being shunned by his peers for being in love with Stargirl. He must chose what he values more, Stargirl's love or his friends and peers friendship. Many teens today are faced with questions like that or similar ones.
The characters in Stargirl all slightly resemble teenagers that most people would know today. Leo is an average teen boy who is struggling to keep out of the spotlight but stay in the circle of popularity. Hillary is a snotty, stuck up, feminine, cheerleader type girl. Wayne is like the one person who sets all the standards for school, he leads the school but from the back of the parade. Dori is a faithful friend who wants to be popular but is rejected for all she's worth, all she wants is a friend. Lastly Stargirl is like no one you have ever known before, but yet in a way like the one person who rebels all the popular stuff and walks to the beat of their own drum. We all know one person like that; some of us just fail to realize it. We can all find someone in our own lives like the characters in Stargirl the book is very realistic.
Stargirl takes place is Mica, Arizona. Mica High is like an average high school in the US; the other important setting in the story is the house of Archie and his cactus Senor Saguaro. The weekly meeting of "The Loyal Order of the Stone Bone" takes place at Archie's house. He is also repeatedly consulted for problems from both Stargirl and Leo. The setting in Stargirl is not as realistic as the characters, but still a place that could exist.
The plot in Stargirl is the most realistic series of events in a book that is non-fiction. The shunning of an individual, trying to fit in with clothing and not being accepted, is just like things seen in hallways at schools. The most interesting part of the story is the fact that Stargirl works delivering flowers and cards to people who need a little cheering up, she still does this wanting remain anonymous. She performs these "random acts of kindness" as a hobby.
Stargirl is a story of individuality, love, hate, friendship, peer pressure, and differences. Stargirl was from a selected group of people blessed with a different way of being "a little more in touch with the stuff we're made of" and that makes her amazing. The reader will most definitely enjoy this book, and never forget about Stargirl or any of the occurrences at Mica High. Maybe they'll agree; she had something that the rest of us didn't, something out of our reach, something different. She wasn't an ordinary teenager.

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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: This book was really great. It tells of Leo falling in love with the new girl at school, who is an extremely unique person. Leo likes her so much that he will do(and he does) almost anything to get her to notice her. I couldn't put this book down.