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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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cameron (04/30/03)

I thought that it was an okay book. This was not one of the best books that I've read but I am going to say that I liked it. It was very interesed to me and, it was an interesting book. Stargirl can act good in a book. Stargirl does do stupid stuff sometimes. Any one that wants to know anything about it should read it for themself.
Erin (04/30/03)

An okay book but not the best! I thought the ending could have been just a little bit better. Leo could have at least seen one silver lunch truck.(That was the only part I didn't like,) But it was something to read when was bored.
Cody Gilstrap (04/30/03)

Stargirl is a very good book. I enjoyed reading this book in class. I think stargirl is a good book to read if anyone wants to read it. This book tells about kids today in school. I liked this book because you can vision it in your mind easely.
clayton (04/30/03)

I do not like stargirl. I think it is a boring book; it has a very poor story line; and absolutely no sense to it. Someone like Stargirl could never exist so I wasted my time reading about someone that could never exist. I think the author did do a good job by putting good description into things that didn't need it. It problem would had held my attention if it wasn't so predictable. It wasn't a total disaster, but it was close.
Mandy (04/30/03)

I am a seventh grader attending at Dacusville Middle School. Our language arts class just finished reading the book Stargirl. I have to say that I was a little disappointed at the end but over all it was superb! The way that Jerri Spenelli wrote the book and made it sound, ended up sounding like a fairytale. I don't think there is a real person like Stargirl but I bet some people have come close. Stargirl helped me learn a lesson, that you should be who you are and to not be afraid of it. I think Jerry Spinelli rote this book just for people like me, to realize that popularity doesn't matter but being yourself does.
Robert b. Threatt (04/30/03)

Stargirl could use a storyline also a match and gas. It is way to boring, it really does need a makeover. a book needes some level of making the reader curious. I'm thirteen and I read the book in 4 hours and felt bored every minute of it. I've read better first grade books! We as readers need to have books with some level of adventure, romance, and action.



sincerely,
Robert b. Threatt



Corey (04/30/03)

I loved the book Stargirl. It was a very interesting book to read. I like it because it teaches people to accept other people by not the way they look and/or act. Again it was a very interesting book and I encourage anyone who questions it to read it!
Matt May (04/30/03)

I think that the book Stargirl was a poor book in all my friends who read Stargirl and I think it was a not a good book for children the author was probably not thinking when he rated the book stargirl for young readers. I fell to see what the author was thinking when he was writing this book.

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