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Summary: I wish upon a star...
Review: Stargirl is the kind of girl you really wish you could be if you stopped caring what people thought and started living for yourself. I wish I was stargirl and that somehow we all are a person who can change thier name to match thier mood and pass out groundhog day cards to thier class, and cheer for the other team at b-ball games.
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Summary: A great book
Review: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is wonderful. It really makes you want to go out and be friends with the girl nobody likes because she is different. Stargirl is an excellent book that stays glued to your hands until you finish it. Even when you finish it, you just think, "Wow, that was great! I need to read this book again!" Sort of like your favorite movie...you can watch it a thousand times and never get bored of it!
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Summary: WOW!
Review: When I first picked up this book, i was expecting nothing of what I got from it. I just bought it because I liked the cover, but that's somewhat what the book is actually about. Stargirl Caraway is galaxies away from what anyone in conventional Mica Area HIgh School considers normal, where different is bad. She wears weird clothes, serenades people with "Happy Birthday" with her ukelele and does random nice things for people. Not so bad, right? Right, well for a while. She becomes a cheerleader and soon the most popular girl in school, but when she cheers when the other team makes baskets, they call her unloyal and kick her out of the squad. They blame her for ruining the team's perfect season. Then they totally brutalize her on the school's TV show HOT SEAT. But there's one person who does see the real Stargirl Caraway. Leo is a conservative junior who just wants to pretty much get through school. He is producer(director?) of the Hot Seat and he collects porcupine ties. But Stargirl has a crush on him and soon they are going out. For a while he thinks that it's ok, but then they give her the silent treatment and as long as he's with her, he's ignored, too. That bugs him for a while. So much that he has to make a painful decision. One he may regret. I totally recommend this book for the soul. It's so, unreal, it's almost real. There's just something about it that just gives you this certain feeling, I don't know what. All I know is read it!
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: This is a book about Susan Caraway, more commonly known as Stargirl.She moves to Mica Area High School and is immediately a disliked because she is different.Or in the word of another of the stories main character's, Leo,"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 the face of adversity she rose up to be the person she was, not the person everyone else wanted her to be, and for that she was respected, and eventually liked.That is, untill she joined the cheerleading squad and cheered for not only her team, but the other team.Can you hero to zero in no time flat.There she was again, the different girl.But in spite of it all she continued to be who she was, no matter what any body else thought.This is a very good book that emphasizes that you should not be act a certain way or dress a certain way yo be accepted, but you should be your own person.I have really taken a lot from this book, and i think that everyone should reas it.
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Summary: It's a star in the sky
Review: This book showed how a person can have the courage to face anything. It gave me faith in myself because it made me realize that sometime you have to ignore everyone and show the world what you truly are like. Her courage to not hide how she was and how she didn't change when everyone's opinions changed about her was a heroic thing. This book is truly a star in the sky of the universe of books. Signed,
Anonymous
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Summary: Stargirl in a Summary
Review: Stargirl is a very good book for pre-teens and teens. It shows them a different point of view of high school and that they don't have to be "in th group". It has an ending that I thought would never happen. Overall I would rate it a very good book!
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Summary: Lesson in human nature
Review: Spinelli has given the world a lesson in human nature with his book Stargirl. We watch as an eccentric young girl is first ebraced by her peers, then ostracized at the first sight of trouble. We learn how little you can rely on those whom you think are your friends. Mica High is almost a microcosm of our society. Depicting the way in which humans often act like "sheep", following a leader and abandoning those who are not mediocore. Read this this book and learn about yourself, your peers, and the human race in general.
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Summary: Stargirl, the elusive today and tomorrow cactus flower.
Review: Stargirl was a knew girl in Mica High, but not of the ordinary. Everyone, including Leo Borlock, and popular Hillari Kimble, notice that this ex- homeschool girl is a bit odd. Decorating her desk with flowers, cheering for the other basketball team, and carrying around her pet rat, Cinnamon. First, question they're asking themselves is, 'Is she real?' Second, 'Can we trust her?' Stargirl and Leo fight the ultimate, "Them," groups, cheerleaders, and jocks, while making Leo wonder who's affection does he value more, her's or their's? I loved this book, as a homeschooler about to go to public school, this book touched me. I hope others liked it as much as I did, and that they found a little bit of Stargirl in themselves.
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Summary: Enlightend
Review: Have you ever met an enlightened person? A spiritual person who is loving, more ready to give than receive? One who is articulate, joyful, full of fun, as well as wise? One who is fully connected to the world of nature around them. One who gets their greatest pleasure from doing nice things for other people? Who spends their whole life trying to bring joy to others without asking for reward or recognition. How would you treat such a person? How would the rest of the world treat such a person? If you think of enlightened, spiritual and inspirational people from the past many have been loved by a few but persecuted by the rest. Now what if that person was a 10th grade girl in your school who dresses wierdly and cheers for either team that scores during basketball matches? Stargirl is such a person. I bought this book as a present for my 11 year old daughter a couple of days before Christmas and read the first chapter. I couldn't put it down and had to read the whole book before I gave it to her. She loves it too. So does my 16 year old daughter... and my wife...so will you!
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Summary: stargirl*
Review: I think that stargirl is a very good book, it shows how individuals are so often treated when they try to be different, and how trying to make them be normal just ruins them.
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