Stargirl

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Summary: Good
Review: This was a great book. I really enjoyed reading it, and you really get wrapped up in the story. You really start to wonder, what would I be like if I didn't care what people thought, and I was similar to Stargirl. I was very disappointed at the end, though. If you are thinking about getting this book and are someone who hates endings that are not sweet and cute, then don't get this book! The book was great, and unless he is writing another book, then the ending wasn't great!

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Summary: Spinelli does it again!
Review: Every book of his is just heart touching. Just like this one. It totally brings out the HS years in you. First love.. Giving up.. Popularity.. This book just breaks your heart and makes you laugh so hard that you start to cry.

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Stargirl is a wonderful book. Especially for people who love books about friendship and they like not knowing what's going to happen next. Jerry Spinelli is a great author, and if you like any of his other books you will definitely like Stargirl. Stargirl is unpredictable, and she has a great personality. It is a great book and I think you will enjoy it.

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Summary: Jerry Spinelli is a genious
Review: This book some may not understand, but I do. It is the best book I've ever read and i'm being serious! i think everyone should read this. I learned a big lesson from this book. Never ever to judge somebody and don't care what they think. Stargirl. The way they treated her the way she didn't care the way that somehow everyone liked her and then they hated her. The way LEo loved her. IT was all beautiful. This book teaches a good lesson to all, READ IT trust me!! :)

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Summary: Wow...
Review: This is most definitely one of those books that everyone should read at least once in their life. Like it's heroine, it's really impossible to define, as it fits into no preformed box. It's happy, it's sad, it's strange and it's ordinary, it's depressing and yet it's uplifting too. It's short; I read it in maybe two hours, but I know it will stay with me for awhile.

Stargirl Caraway has been homeschooled up until now, when she enters Mica highschool for the first time. Her new classmates don't know what to make of her at first, she dances in the rain, wears long prairie dresses and no make-up, plays a ukalele, and sings happy birthday to complete strangers. They embrace her for her differences, and even begin to imatate her a bit, at first. Leo falls in love with her almost instantly, for everything that she is, and yet, when they begin to turn on her, he feels torn. Whose love does he need more? Their's or Stargirl's?

Like I said, this is an excellent book, one I'd recommend to anyone over the age of twelve or so.

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Summary: Stargirl Shines
Review: I read this book in one sitting only because I could not put it down. Stargirl was a pure soul, an unjaded gift that few could appreciate no matter the age they were at.
Jerry Spinelli certainly knows the ups and downs of teenage insecurities and desires. Stargirl could follow her dreams because she did not let peers (pressure) measure her worth. Stargirl was not perfect. She was only in the 10th grade, so she did not understand SOME things. For instance, when she hangs around after a funeral, she does not understand why the woman (the daughter of the deceased) got anger and threw her out.
I would LOVE it if Jerry Spinelli would do a second story about Stargirl. Where did she go? How did she make out in life? Does she change as she matures? Or does she blossom in to an even more beautiful person than she already is? I loved Stargirl and I loved the boy Leo. He is the actual subject of the story. How many Leo's are out there? You know, the ones who let a Stargirl get away? Read this book! It is wonderful, ENCHANTED, and a real gift from the author! Thank you Jerry Spinelli!

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Summary: Stargirl
Review: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is a wonderful book about a girl thats not so ordinary. She cheers for the other team when they score and she go's around everyday with a ukelele singing happy birthday. This boy named Leo becomes her boyfriend. Stargirl shows Leo many enchanted places and Leo learns alot everyday. Everybody excluded Stargirl, so now that Leo is with Stargirl he is also being excluded.At the ball during the summer Stargirl was slapped by Hillary Kimble who says Stargirl ruined the whole dance, because she led a dance line into the desert for hours and Hillary Kimble did not want to go. While Hillary closed her eyes expecting to get slapped back Stargirl gave her a little kiss on the cheek. After the ball Stargirl was never seen again.

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Summary: Wonderful--for adults too!
Review: What a great book! It's a quick read for adults, and it is lovely. The author has managed to capture emotions and dilemnas that we are going through (or have been through) with compassion and insight. I recommend this book to all with an open mind, and curiosity about any and all books, for youngsters and adults. (My local bookseller recomended it to me; otherwise I don't think I would have seen it.)

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Rating:
Summary: Beautiful story
Review: I loved this book and would recommend it to everyone, not just young adult girls. It tells the story of what happens when a very unique girl by the name of Stargirl begins high school in the small town of Micah. Her effect on the school students is immediate and profund, particularly on one boy. I think we all could stand to be a bit more like Stargirl.

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Summary: Magic - yet something was missing
Review: I had decided to read Stargirl from rave reviews I had read everywhere. Every review I had read decribed Stargirl as 'unforgettable' and 'enchanting', so I decided to give it a go. From the opening page I wasn't too impressed and I couldn't see me vigorously enjoying the book, but I kept on until I realised that I was starting to get caught up in this eccentric, but wonderful character.
The world that she lived in was so wooden; everyone the same. At first people respected her for being different, but then it grew nasty, showing you that being different is not a safe thing to do.
I could easily relate to this book, and I think everyone could if they tried. I could relate to having that curious feeling to be different, and not acting and dressing as all my friends do. I feel I am quite an opinionated person, but really, I'm not sure if the opinions I think I feel are the real ones, and I never express them, unlike Stargirl. I can also see Leo's feelings too. He had fallen in love, but if he ever could show this to all the people around him, he would come to the same position as Stargirl was in. It seemed that Stargirl never cared, like she didn't have the same emotions as the rest of us, but I think she did; she was just very good at hiding them.
I want to thank the author for writing this book because I feel as if I have learnt something about today's society, and for not making the ending easy and simple. If Leo had chose Stargirl over his right to be normal, we'll never know what would have happened. As amazing as this book was, when I read the last line and put down the book, I thought to myself, isn't there something missing? I don't know what it was, but I couldn't help feeling slightly empty. But as all the reviewers said, this book will stay with me forever, and I think even the people that hated it will feel Stargirl inside them one day.