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Summary: Wow...almost the story of my life...
Review: This is an outstanding book! it sort of matches my life story. i was known as the weird one at school, then became popular, then went back to being the weird one. i finally became friends with the popular people and the guys(which was a big step for a 11 year old) and right now i am going into 8th grade as a member of the popular group. i have one or two guys liking me at the moment(which is amazing because ive never been liked before). all that was because of this book. this book gave me the power to speak up and not be afraid to be different. STARGIRL is a very empowering book for anybody, particulary girls.
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Summary: Stargirl is a one of a kind read.
Review: Stargirl Caraway was true to herself. She stood alone in her world of floor-length dresses, pet rat, ukulele music, and nonconformity. But then there was Leo. After Stargirl came to Mica High, she captured the heart of 16-year-old Leo Borlock. Despite her different ways, she started a revolution among the students, and became one of the elite. She was a cheerleader, a trendsetter, an idol, but she was still Stargirl. That never changed. In time, her new-found popularity began to decrease. Her fellow peers did not appreciate Stargirl intruding on funerals of complete strangers or rooting for the rival team in important games. Stargirl was deemed an outcast, and Leo (now called “Starboy”) was left to choose between a first love and friends. As a desperate attempt to put an end to the hate, Leo pleads with Stargirl to become normal-- “the very thing that can destroy her.” Jerry Spinelli writes Stargirl with such realism it feels as though you are one of the busy students bustling through the frenzied halls of Mica High School. Spinelli’s Stargirl gives a peek into the teenage mind and the struggles of acceptance we face each and every day.
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Summary: Life altering....
Review: It may seem silly, but this story has really changed my life. It makes you fell in love and it makes you cry, and it makes you desperate for something better and beautiful. I'm out of the 'young adult' range, but this really resurfaces some lost 'primitiveness' in us, which we all need. It echoed in my mind for days and days afterwards, and still has not left. Really - the best thing I've ever read.
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Summary: this is a great book!!!!!
Review: anyone thats looking for a good book for the summer this book is for you!!!! i read this book in only 3 days! this book is about indviuality and how others accept you. from this book i learned how to take time to make sure im and individual and also to take time for the little things in life! you wont want to put this book down!
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Summary: Difference Isn't Bad.
Review: When Stargirl Caraway enters the highschool in the town of Mica, everybody doesn't know how to react to her. Everyone in Mica High is the same. They dress the same, they eat the same, and they listen to the same music. Stargirl is nothing like them. She dresses up in big frilly dresses that fall to her feat, and she acts differently. Not badly though. At lunch, she sings "Happpy Birthday" with her ukilale and her pet rat, Cinnimon on her shoulder. The main character, Leo, is amazed by her, not scared like everyone else is. When Stargirl finally gets accepted, she goes through some tough times, and then some VERY tough times. But with the love of Leo, will she make it through High school?
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Summary: Great beginning, but in the end... :(
Review: When I began reading this book, I quickly got hooked into it; I became instantly identified with Stargirl, because she was different from the rest of her classmates... However, from the "Redrock" incident, the book's plot gets pretty twisted and sad;.... In the End, I was crying, holding the book close to my chest.
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Summary: EVERYONE of EVERY AGE must read this book.
Review: I am an adult who loves to read. This book must be read to yourself. It must be read aloud. It must be read aloud to your spouse, lover, friend, mother. To your children. Your adolescents should read it to themselves. IT MUST BE READ. It is a story of the ego and where it belongs. It incorporates the becoming of self, the individual's role in the world, in love... Everything. It is all there. Subtley, beautifully, layered and simply. Thank you Jerry. Truly.
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Summary: keep reading! it gets better
Review: I borrowed this from my friend leslie one day in study hall when i was bored, and after the first three chapters i couldn't put it down. What at first seems like a simple story turns into an intricate plot. The story of a new girl, an outsider, and her relationship with the people around her, one inparticular kept me reading until i finished the book. Although it had a slow start, this is one of the best books ive read in a while. a must buy
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Summary: I am in love with Star Girl!!!
Review: I knew that this book would be a new favorite before I even finished the synopses on the inside of the sleeve! A little while into it and I had decided that I loved it, after finishing it I knew that I would read it again right afterwards. Star Girl is the story of a sixteen year old free spirit who is uncompromising in her sense of self, the boy who both fears and adores her honesty and a world that refuses to except what it does not understand. If only all the books out there told such a rich story that could change the way of thinking of the reader no matter what their age! I cannot sing enough praises of Jerry Spinelli and his Star Girl.
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Summary: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Review: "She was elusive. She was today. She was tommorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the fitting shadow of an elf owl." She was Stargirl. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is a story of a person, that we are all afraid to be. She is the person inside we never let out, and she is not afraid to be that way. "On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decicedly. She is us more that we are us. She is, I think who we really are. Or were." (Page 32) The story takes place in a small town called Mica, Arizona, where Stargirl makes a great impact on the town and the people in her highschool. Her different style and her overly nice personality gives her the ability to gain many friends, and at the same time, lose friends. Although her unique personality is accepted at first, it is later rejected. The only person that loves her, is the most loyal of all, Leo Borlock. Will Stargirl every gain back her respect and love? To find out, read the book! This book was well written, and and the same time, easy to understand and read. "She won. As she had said she would. The silver plate they gave her twinkled like a starburst in a galaxy of flashing cameras. Two TV crews washed her in lights and interviewed her backstage. Strangers mobbed her, citizens of Pheonix gushing, telling her they had been coming to the contest for years and had never heard anything like it. Schoolchildren thrust programs in her face for autographs. Every parent wanted her for a daughter, every teacher for a student." (Page 157) I enjoyed this book because it taught me that people should be who they are, and they will be accepted. Don't try to be someone else, you will end up being rejected.
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