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Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl

by Jerry Spinelli
  • Critics' Consensus (2):
  • Readers' Rating (402):
  • First Published:
  • Aug 1, 2000, 176 pages
  • Paperback:
  • May 2002, 192 pages
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Lizzie Schreffler (04/30/03)

The book Stargirl was a vary good book. Although it is sad that leo never got to see her again. Maybe Jerry can write a sequel to show what happened from StargIRls' point of view and after she left. Then another one from both of them like 30 or 40 years in the future and if they remember or think about each other.
Brittany Reeves (04/30/03)

At the beginning of Stargirl, I was not interested. After a few chapters, though, I became increasingly familiar with her and fell in love with the book. From my point of view, it is one of the best books you could ever read. You could say Stargirl was magnums. I never could figure out what she was going to do next. Some of the stunts she pulled made me think, "How could anyone be brave enough to stand in front of a crowd and act in such a manner." I could never do it that is for sure. Sometimes the actions of everyone would make you laugh aloud and sometimes make you want to cry. I really enjoyed the book.
Kristi Page (04/30/03)


At the beginning of the story I got bored with it, but later it got better (it is not one of those book that really keep you at edge of your set). Sometimes it made you wont to cry and lol. The book really got me in it when she became popular, right then I knew there was going to be a big turning point was right some thing bad happened to her people stared rejecting her. So Leo tolled her she had to change and she did b/c she loved him. So in away I liked this book and did not.

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Niki Turner (04/30/03)


I love the book Stargirl. I could really relate to this book. It was all about teens like us. She actully looks like a girl from my school. It made me feel emotions that I never really feel when i read books like this. I felt sad, lonley, glad, blod, and even scared. Stargirl made me think about me as an indivuial not as me as in a group. I thought about being popular and being geeks and how what was in and what is out. I loved all the crazy things she did like dropping money like qarturs and dimes for little kids to pick. she just loved to see there smiling faces. Her way of fun was to do stuff for other people like cherridy work but she did it as ' want to do thing'! She was so kind to everyone. I really did not like the ending I hope he writes a sqeaul. I wish that he would go to one of the reunioins and she would be there. I wish that they would get married and have two kids and name them Bo Peep and Moon Pie. This book tought me how to look at life a different way. That it is ok to be different.
Niki Turner
Christina Trammell (04/30/03)

The book Stargirl was exciting! I hated that Leo never saw Stargirl after the Octillo Ball. I also thought that it was wrong that Leo turned down Stargirl because she wasn't like everyone else. Stargirl was an influence on the story's setting and to me. She taught me just to be myself and that it does not matter what everyone else thinks about you, as long as you are proud with yourself. The story left me on the edge of my seat. I loved how Stargirl really stood out from the rest. I might just read it again!!!*********************Christina Trammell********************
Bittney Leppard (04/30/03)

Stargirl was a really good book. It teaches you to not judge the peson by the outside but by the inside. The people that are so different than everybody around them are the ones who are the nicest and more loving and caring than anyone else. StarGirl was so different that hardly any one would get to know her for how great she was.
Kim Burabge (04/30/03)

I am a 7th grader at Dacusville Middle School. Our class read Stargirl. This book is a great book!
I loved it! I really enjoyed it. The only thing I didn't like about the book was that it had a bad
ending. Stargirl was a really nice girl. She was always caring,smart,and funny. She was not popular,
but than she bacame popular. Than she fell back down to being unpopular. Everybody thought she was funny looking,but when she got all dressed up she looked awsome. Stargirl had a rat that she carried everywhere she went. This book was awsome! I really liked it! I hope there will be a 2nd Stargirl.
josh mccoy (04/30/03)

I really liked stargirl, it was fasinating I liked the rat cinnimon, I think he would of been cute. I really liked the background It was really enthusiastic. I liked when leo went to stargirls enchanted place, and tried to do nothing. that part was funny. My favorite part was when leo was sitting behind the car and was talking to stargirl. when cinnimon was crawling on leo. thats my impression on the book.




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