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Summary: An EXCELLANT book, that makes you wonder
Review: I bought this book for myself as a thirteenth
birthday present, not really knowing what it
was about. It sat on my shelf for a couple weeks
before I picked it up on a car trip and read
it. I couldn't put it down! It is an enchanting
story about a tenth grade girl who isn't afraid
to be herself. She dances in the rain, brings a
pet rat to school, and strums a Ukelele. She
spends her weekands doing things for other people.
This book makes you think a little harder about
your daily routine, and what it means. It makes you
think that life is a little more than school,
friends, homework, sleep. Trust me, if you have
to read one book this summer for a reading list, I
recommend this one!
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Summary: Which do YOU value more?
Review: "Which do you value more, her affection or the affection of others?" Although coming more than half way through the book, this is the essence of the book. Stargirl Caraway is (on the surface), the nuttiest fruitcake in the school. In Mica Area High School, where conformity is highly valued, Stargirl acts like an escapee from the insane asylum: 1850s Prarie Girl dresses, she has a pet rat, she plays the ukelele every day in the cafeteria, and, as the main character, Leo, finds out, she constantly goes out of her way to do things for other people: she gives a small treat to every member of the school every holiday, she anonymously buys gifts for total strangers, and countless other acts of kindness. So what does one do if he is forced to choose between being liked by his high school community in general and remaining loyal to Stargirl, the personification of kindness (who happens to be strange as strange can be). This is a very well-written book. Jerry Spinelli makes the reader feel very warmly toward Stargirl, resent the cruelity of the other students and yet struggle with Leo as he has to make a very difficult decision.
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Summary: Wise and not too corny
Review: Stargirl: Part Amelie clone, part christ myth, part indictment of the stupidity of the young and the appeal of groupthink. Like Amelie, it uses a freakishly unworldly ingenue to force us to question our accepted ways of interacting with one another and conceptualizing the world. Like Amelie, and like most moderately successful christ stories, it's at some points so corny that it's hard to remain involved. At these points the third identity carries it through, because young people really are stupid (in some ways), and you could write about that forever. I spent half an hour in a disconsolate stupor after finishing Stargirl. Not because of the story itself, but because it evoked all the things I've done wrong with my life. The book certainly succeeds at creating pathos. And it raises some genuinely interesting questions of the "why can't we all just get along?" variety. I am extremely dubious about its answers, but considering that I only had to give it a couple of hours I feel like I was well rewarded.
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Summary: A great book
Review: This is an amazing book, from Stargirl's first entrance to her final curtain call. The only things I don't like are how Leo tries to change Stargirl and then how it ends (I won't give anything away). The best part is definetly when Leo and Stargirl are together, and it's greatness makes up for the sad parts. You won't want to be one of the crowd after reading this book.
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Summary: So much brilliance in such a short book!
Review: WOW. What can I say? This was a WONDERFUL book, something you can just read again and again, and in a very short period of time--I read the whole thing in one plane ride (well, it WAS a flight back from Hawaii to the East Coast, which needless to say was preeeetty long, but it took only a few hours to finish because I couldn't put it down). This is definitely a book to be enjoyed by all ages--it's fun, touching, and just plan INSPIRING! ... it was kinda scary how Stargirl reminded me a LOT of myself sometimes (albeit a bit exaggerated), but that's certainly not a bad thing! You HAVE to read this book; you don't know what you're missing.
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: This book was happy, sad, and touching. It really made you think about pier pressure and individualism. I just hate how Leo makes Stargirl change. She was she perfect and nice and everything, and then he turned her into one of THEM for a while, and that was when things got bad for them. Still, this book is SO good.
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Summary: If we could all be a little bit like *Girl
Review: Leo Borlock likes porcupine neckties, but other than that he is shy and likes to fit in. But he isn't confronted with this fact about himself until he meets and falls in love with Stargirl'the most free spirited, non-conformist anyone of us has ever met. Then, he must decide if he wants to be with her or them'because he can't be with both. I am a middle school teacher and find that this book would be useufl in a classroom as a means to discuss outsiders, insiders and how it feels to be different and not fit in.
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Summary: High School Blues
Review: Spinelli does for girls in this book what he did for boys in Maniac Magee, which was awarded a Newbery Medal in 1991. The narrator, Leo Borlock, tells us about Stargirl, who is bigger than life, a mystery, a fascinating entity, but because of these very qualities is ultimately considered a nonconformist, and is therefore boycotted by the students of Mica High, much to Leo's dismay. (A story that claims no cultural heritage, just any state in any high school in America.)
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Summary: GET THIS IMMEDIATELY!
Review: ...[You] should get this immediately. It is a BEAUTIFUL and very TOUCHING book. Even though it wasnt meant to be said, at the end, I had a lump in my throat and my friend was crying. StarGirl has impressed all of us, not only Leo Borlock. The paragraph on the back is beautiful. Stargirl wins everyone over but this girl named Hillari ruins it for her and everybody hates her because she keeps cheering and helping the other team and embarasses people by singing Happy Birthday to them in the lunchroom. Leo totally, truly loves her and everybody resents him too. But, I wont tell you what happens in the end. An extremely well-written beautiful book. I thought some things in the book were wicked cute! GET THIS BOOK NOW!
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Summary: The brightest star every hidden by clouds
Review: "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. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to corkboard like a butterfly, but th epin merely went through and away she flew."
Those are the exact words you will find on the back of this book. Stargirl is a tale of friendships, love, and a small school in a little town known as Mica, Arizona. You could call her a revolutionary, one of her own, and compared to the students at Mica she seemed to be the only one who didn't care what they thought. It seemed the more her classmates tried to figure her out, the father they got from understanding who she truly was. Ofcourse, they had their own theories for why Stargirl was the way she was: "She was trying to get herself discovered for the movies" "She was homeschooling gone amok" She was an alien". There were more theories than one could name but ofcourse none of them were true. Stargirl was definately something special, she was truly what we all wish we could be, free. It seems that when we try to deny ourselves who we are we tuck those feeling away somewhere, and it appeared in this book that Stargirl had captured all of those feeling in herself. Her with her ukulele and off the wall clothes, her with her pet rat and odd habits, and her with her never ending positive attitude that could make anybody happy, her being everything that everybody wanted to be, it was her, Stargirl Caraway who did something for Mica that it really needed, she made the students and people indivuduals, she let them be themselves which was something that each one of them felt they could never have the chance to do.
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