Author: Jerry Spinelli
Title: Stargirl
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Title: Stargirl
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date: 2003
Reading Level: 10+
Number of Pages: 186
Genre: Fiction
Summary of plot: Stargirl is a story told from a boys point of view named Leo. it starts out with the new girl who just moved is named Stargirl she is strange to say it nicely. She carries around a rat and sings Happy Birthday in the lunch room to everyone. Leo falls in love with her. She becomes popular and then just as fast as her becoming popular she becomes the class mate that everyone shuns and because Leo is her boy friend he two becomes shuned but the rest of the student body. Just like any other middle school aged kid Leo two soon to turn his back on stargirl and it ends up being the worst dissicion he ever made.
Readers Reaction: This is a book I wish I would have read in Jr High or even beginning of High School. It has a really good message but it makes me so sad that they are so mean to her.
Readers Reaction: This is a book I wish I would have read in Jr High or even beginning of High School. It has a really good message but it makes me so sad that they are so mean to her.
Potential Problems: The students are rude, There is one kiss, and one adult character smokes a pipe.
Recommendation: Middle School Girls before they go into High school
Recommendation: Middle School Girls before they go into High school
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