Stargirl
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Stargirl. From the day she arrives at silent Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first.
Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with like, urges her to become the very thing that can ruin her: normal. In this celebration of eccentricity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first like.
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“She was homeschooling gone amok.” “She was an alien.” “Her parents were circus acrobats.” These are only a few of the theories fictitious to clarify Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona’s Mica Area High School who wears lead the way dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no composition. The whole school, not exactly a “hotbed of eccentricity,” is stunned by her, including our 16-year-ancient narrator Leo Borlock: “She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.”
In time, incredulity gives way to out-and-out worship as the student body finds itself helpless to resist Stargirl’s wide-eyed charm, pure-spirited friendliness, and penchant for celebrating the achievements of others. In the essential high school symbol of acceptance, she is even recruited as a cheerleader. Popularity, of course, is a fragile and fleeting state, and bit by bit, Mica sours on their new idol. Why is Stargirl showing up at the funerals of strangers? Worse, why does she cheer for the opposing basketball teams? The growing lack of sympathy comes to a head when she is verbally flogged by resentful students on Leo’s televised Hot Seat show in an episode that is too terrible to air. While the playful, chin-held-high Stargirl seems impervious to the shunning that ensues, Leo, who is in the throes of first like (and therefore scornfully deemed “Starboy”), is not made of such strong stuff: “I became mad. I resented having to choose. I refused to choose. I imagined my life lacking her and lacking them, and I didn’t like it either way.”
Jerry Spinelli, leader of Newbery Medalist Maniac Magee, Newbery Honor Book Wringer, and many additional brilliant books for teens, elegantly and accurately captures the collective, not-permanently-pretty emotions of a high school microcosm in which individuality is pitted against conformity. Spinelli’s Stargirl is a supernatural teen character–absolutely egoless, altruistic, in touch with life’s primitive rhythms, meditative, unconcerned by well loved culture, and supremely self-confident. It is the sensitive Leo whom readers will tell to as he grapples with who she is, who he is, who they are together as Stargirl and Starboy, and indeed, what it means to be a human being on a planet that is rich with wonders. (Ages 10 to 14) –Karin Snelson
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Stargirl wants to make people pleased, but she cannot tell, or does not care, if they are pleased or not. Furthermore, most of her actions are indistinguishable from stalking, which alarms and angers the people around her.
Probably, Stargirl is mildly autistic, and this might yet have been an appealing book if Spinelli were trying to explore mental illness, but the book is self-contradictory on that score.
Keep this book away from young students.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Its like a amusing book yet mystery but wierd. Reason why i place amusing is she makes you laugh. one additional reason for mysery. one thing about weird is cheers for additional team. i dint like it becouse it was predictible. my least favorite charictor is leo. hes to shy. hes not daring. that the book is not amusing. it needs more humor.i would not recamend this book!!!!!!!!!!!! not now not EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli,is the worst book that he has evr writtin.The book was givinfour and a half stars.Star girl has no point to it ,it takes place in mica high school and thats where all the problems start.The book is basically about stargirl going to a new schoool and about all the problems she faced when she was there.Some problems stargirl faces the book are being made of,being selected to be on th hotseat, and being different.Some ways that the leader could make the book more appealing and more fun to read are, not talking so much about what she was wearing at the time and talking mor about her and leo and how their relationship grew within the tale in concluion the book stargirl shouldent have won the stars that they got and there where many things that the leader could do to make the tale more appealing and fun to read
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
A book I would not recommend. Just that a character is odd and out-of-place (weird) does not make a excellent tale. And – all else to make it a excellent book is missing.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Yeah, im not a kid just not singed up. The book looks ok, the take in is kinda hideous so ive never read it. My friend despised it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5