Stargirl



Title- Stargirl Author- Jerry Spinelli Genre- Fiction Length- 240pgs. Reccommended Grade Range- 6-8 Year Published- 2000 Final Rating- 6/10

**Summary**-Leo moves to Arizona, excited and happy. He is a sixteen-year old boy who is shy and smart. He is part of a TV. show for the school and doesn’t like speaking in front of people. He has been there for a couple of years now, and everything is normal and dull. That all changes one day when Stargirl moves to his school. Stargirl is strange yet lighthearted. She wears the weirdest things and even plays the ukulele and sings. Leo’s life gets turned upside-down when he finds out the she has a crush on him. He gets into a daze of love and is always with her. Soon enough a terrible thing happens when she is cheerleading. During a basketball game, a player on the other team gets hurt and she immediately goes out to help him. The player gets taken off the court and soon after the accident Stargirl leaves the game. Without Stargirl the team loses their spirit. They lost that game and their chances of going to Nationals. The whole school blames her for their loss. They turn against her by not talking to her. And now, since Leo is spending so much time with her, they have started to ignore him too. He waits awhile but soon cant take being ignored. So he decided that it was time to talk to Archie. Archie was an old archeologist who had bones all around his house. He also almost always smoked his pipe and would every time Leo would visit. It was a good decision to talk to Archie because he is very wise and understanding. Leo and Stargirl soon develop a plan to help Stargirl become popular and have people not ignoring them. Will she and Leo’s plan work? Will they ever be talked to ever again?

**Review**- I think that this book is O.K. The reason that I think that this is only an O.K. book is because it somewhat loses its spark towards the end of the story. Although it does lose its spark towards the end, it really grabs your attention in the beginning. Compared to the beginning, the ending is misleading, confusing and a little bit disappointing. That is why I think that this book is just O.K.

**Recommendation**- I would recommend this book for people who are good readers. This book is also good for people who love a challenge. I say this because in some parts of this book is it somewhat hard to follow. I would also say this because it has some difficult vocabulary words. Although it may be challenging, it is fascinating and interesting. It is a good story that you wouldn’t guess would guess what it is about. If you like Fiction you could also read these books by Jerry Spinelli; Crash, the Library Card and Milkweed.