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Summary: Stargirl review by Linda Taylor
Review: 'Last month, one day before my birthday, I received a gift-wrapped package in the mail. It was a porcupine necktie.'
This is a perfect end quote to a perfect story as it relates to the beginning of the book. Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli, is about a 16 year old girl who comes to Mica High in America. The other students at the school think that she is strange and weird as she dresses different and acts differently to what everyone thinks is normal. She continues to do things her own way but when the school starts to shun her, Stargirls boyfriend, Leo, wants her to change.
'Leo, desperate with love urges her to become the very thing that will destroy her:normal.' I found the book intriguing, exhilarating, emotional and sad all at the same time. Spinelli's expertise of characterisation shows up in Stargirl and the other characters. Stargirls character is so likeable, energetic and happy that you want to be her best friend for life. Spinelli is excellent at describing such as when she talks about the desert or 'enchanted place' and when she talks about cinnamon, Stargirls pet rat.
Stargirl is a book from and excellent author that entraps you from start to finish and leaves you asking questions about an ending you will never suspect.
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Summary: The Book For The Different Girl In You
Review: StarGirl....shes unique, elusive, strong-willed, generous and overall, amazing. Its no wonder that she would become captain of the cheerleading team, and the most popular girl in school. But , Stargirls different. She wears pioneer skirts, a hand-painted sunflower tote bag, and a mouse, named Cinnamon, over one shoulder. And even though the Highschool doesnt seem to mind at first, they begin to hate StarGirl. Everyone has a plot to literally, "mess her up". The only person that is willing to be her Friend is a boy that she meets along the way. If you want to learn more about StarGirl, read this novel!!
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Summary: Stargirl was...alright
Review: This was not one of my favorite books but it was not bad. It is a pretty typical story line. And the only part I truly enjoyed Was Stargirl's relationship with the elderly man. However, I did also like the fact that she still tried to remain herself even under the pressures of high school life. This book was alright, but not one of my particular favorites. It was a very quick read. I hope my review has helped you!
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Summary: STARGIRL IS DESCRIPTIVE, TOUCHING, AND UNIQUE.
Review: Stargirl has to be the best book I have ever read. Jerry Spinelli has coem up with some of the most creative analogies, and descriptions, in this book. You will also fall in love with the charachters. Stargirl puts "us", meaning humanity, to shame. Stargirl is unearthly, in her selfless acts of kindness, and in her sheer originality. What's amazing is, even though Spinelli portrays her as the real image of humanity, and seems as distant from humanity as possible. We are a broken image of the real "us", which is actually "I". It speaks truth, about how we have lost ourselves in conformity. Leo, who truly loves Stargirl, can't handle her. Stargirl is so unique, and open. Leo is symbolic of anybody who is normal. We don't, or can't, accept or fully understand those who are true, hardcore, individuals. This book is deep, touching, and it will open your eyes, to what is, and what is not "normal".
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Summary: Hopeful Stranger
Review: To be honest this book should be the best seller of the New York Times. When I first read this book it didn't seem like a good book but never judge a book by its cover. A boy on his way to self discovery of his own self involvement in the world around him shows the meaning of a new way he looks at life itself and to understand the mysterious ways of the universe. The girl in this book knows how it feels to be an outcast in a small town in Arizona. The author which wrote this book has a full understanding of what the characters are going through. For example the author wrote this book about his wife's free and imaginative spirit. I recommend this book to all ages.
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Summary: a star book for a stargirl
Review: When I first picked up Stargirl, I thought it would be some book about a weird preppy girl who thinks she's all that, trying to make it through the world without her makeup kit or something. I was wrong. Stargirl is an extraordinary book showing the paradigms of a high school society, and how we, as a group of people, adapt to change. Anything out of the ordinary is considered a trick, something weird and dangerous that you should always stay away from. In this book you see that being overly kind and thoughtful can make you an outcast because people aren't used to it, and what they aren't used to, they don't like. Stargirl Caraway has one huge goal: to care about every little thing that goes on in town. She feels the feelings of people, she cries about a stranger when he dies, is happier than most when a kid gets out of the hospital, she's happy when everybody's well and alive. Her compassion for everybody, friends and enemies of friends, gets her in trouble, and soon this nice but odd girl becomes an outcast at school, with only her best friend Dori and her boyfriend Leo Borlock, through who's eyes this story is told. Stargirl does everything to become liked again, just to make Leo happy. However, the damage has been done, and she then moves away. Leo spends the rest of his life pondering over the strangeness of that girl, and at the end of the story you have to think... would you have hated her for being her?
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Summary: No title
Review: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is a story about a high school girl in Arizona who has just stepped out of her home-schooling cage and into the real world. Now if only it were more real. I thought this book was mediocre in its overall composition. This book (to me at least) was not particularly well-written. It had similes and metaphors and all that jazz, but nothing that really seemed to stand out. Second of all, I thought that it took a really long time to build up. Also, I found that, in hindsight, a lot of this book was extremely unrealistic. This book's possibly only good feature is the plot. Good thing, too, because the writing sure wasn't doing anything for me! Sure, he uses the metaphor of Cinnamon's eyes to peppercorns, and that's all fine and dandy. Problem is, he uses that same metaphor over and over and over again. As far as descriptive writing goes, I saw very few really good examples of it in this book. It's certainly nothing compared to Tolkien. Another bad thing is that it takes a wile to get to the good parts. It takes seventeen (Seventeen!) chapters just to start getting to the good stuff. There seemed to me to be an awful lot of fluff. The first half of the book was the worst, most boring part of the story. It took me a long time to read because of that. The biggest and most annoying fault in this book is its tendency to be contrary to reality. Especially during the second half of the book where the whole school was shunning her with the exception of about five people. Yeah, right. An entire school is going to unanimously decide to stop talking to one person. Come on, how long can these people hold a grudge?! That's just the tip of the iceberg, too. So basically I loathed the book, and I encourage you to loathe it, too. Hate it for its outlandish turquoise cover and its dull and boring contents. Shun it for its failed attempt to capture reality, and its ordinarily written paragraphs, and small type. I would not recommend this book to anyone except the person who has read all of the other books in the world.
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Summary: Stargirl - A *Star* Novel
Review: An inspirational story, stirrring the hearts of hundreds, Stargirl is a perfect novel weaved together by Jerry Spinelli, and is a novel that I was enchanted reading. This author's characterization, writing descriptiveness, and command of language are the elements that make this book wonderful.
Initially, his descriptions of Stargirl's boldness and uniqueness, that causes her to be shunned by her own fellow classmates in her new highschool, and also causes her to shine brilliantly above her peers, are very descriptive. For example, the author gives details about her keen curiosity, her natural command of speech, her immediate friendliness, her bag with a painted flower, her rat, and her ukulele that she carries to school, all which adds to her overall bold image. Additionally, the author's descriptive writing has made this book very interesting. For instance, he describes everyone at the Mica Highschool, saying that they are like a rubberband, wearing the same clothes, talking the same way, eating the same food, and listening to the same music, yet in the one moment when they would happen to distinguish themselves, they would snap right back. Lastly, the author's language is what pulls together this whole book. This novel is seen through 16 year old Leo Borlock's point of view, who is the narrator of the story. So the language and the perspective of the story are of a 16 year old, making the story very interesting to read. All in all, Stargirl is a fantastic book and should be read by everyone, because of the detailed character descriptions, descriptive writing style, and the author's language. With a mixture of all of these elements, this novel is phenomenal as it portrays that it is good to be true to yourself.
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Summary: Stargirl review by ruby
Review: If you are looking for a thoroughly depressing book about the evils of high school social classes, look no further. You have found Stargirl, a freshman who dares to defy the normal order of her high school and goes out of her way to be nice to people. Everyone in Stargirl's high school, besides her boyfriend Leo, and her friend Dori, hates her. The story is told by Leo, who makes Stargirl sound so hopeless and pathetic that you'll want to rip the book to pieces. Although it is a fictional story, no "higher class" student treats their peers like the dirt they make Stargirl out to be. Incredibly dull and dreary, Stargirl is filled with boring details and similes that leave you depressed and unhappy. This is one book to leave at home.
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Summary: One-of-a-kind MUST READ for ALL AGES
Review: I'm 30 years old and found this book to be timeless and beyond its years. It came to my attention by way of being featured on the front page of Amazon.com the day I visited. Stargirl represents both what we used to be and what we could be if we embraced our true selves. Oh what a planet this would be! It is global in its message and appropriate for us to read especially at this time in our world. A quick "light" read with a rich and deep message. I cannot say enough good things about it. You will wish she were real, but if you can only meet her in this book, you'll be much better off.
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