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Loading... Stargirl (2000)by Jerry Spinelli
Chapter Book: No one, including Leo, had ever met anyone like stargirl. She's different, unique and special. Leo instantly falls in love. The school at first is all about Stargirl until the decide she's weird, not normal. Leo tries to help her and save her from their classmates by helping her be normal. But she teaches Leo some very important lessons.  KristinPetersMoreno | May 13, 2013 |  You don't know what you've got until you've lost her. (  ) heike6 | May 2, 2013 | WATCH BOOK TRAILER Sixteen-year-old Leo tells the story of Stargirl Caraway, the free spirit who enrolls at Mica High School, not exactly the “hotbed of nonconformity.” Also, Love, Stargirl. KilmerMSLibrary | Apr 30, 2013 | It will be hard to find a more unique character than Stargirl, as she plays the ukelele during lunch, will serenade people when it's their birthday, and dances when there is no music. The student body is fascinated by her especially are narrator Leo Borlock and soon that fascination gives Stargirl popularity which can be fickle and problems ensue. Spinelli has created a truly original character in Stargirl and through her made being unique seem alright, something that preteens need to be reminded of. This book is perfect for middle school student because they are beginning to see that some of their friends are different from the rest and they are also dealing with their first romances as well. I would highly suggest that this book be read in the classroom because it sends such a great message. Lizziep | Apr 27, 2013 | I listened to the audiobook read by John Ritter, who I just don't like! His voice his odd and I felt like his voice personality affected the content of the story. Despite this, I came to really like the story and to kind of love Stargirl. What a great creation she is. And so sad to read about her treatment at the hands of a fickle high school crowd and our cowardly narrator Leo Borlock. A good read for anyone anywhere, anytime, really. :)Especially anyone who's ever been to school. ( ) KristySP | Apr 21, 2013 | no reviews | add a review Has as a student's study guide
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0440416779, Mass Market Paperback)"She was homeschooling gone amok." "She was an alien." "Her parents were circus acrobats." These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona's Mica Area High School who wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no music. The whole school, not exactly a "hotbed of nonconformity," is stunned by her, including our 16-year-old 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 adoration 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 ultimate 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 hostility 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 love (and therefore scornfully deemed "Starboy"), is not made of such strong stuff: "I became angry. I resented having to choose. I refused to choose. I imagined my life without her and without them, and I didn't like it either way." Jerry Spinelli, author of Newbery Medalist Maniac Magee, Newbery Honor Book Wringer, and many other excellent books for teens, elegantly and accurately captures the collective, not-always-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, untouched by popular culture, and supremely self-confident. It is the sensitive Leo whom readers will relate 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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:29:14 -0500) In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. |
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