Length: 186 pages
Recommended Age: from About the Time the Kids at Your School First Started Forming Cliques, to the Point Where You Nod Off in the Middle of a Chapter While Sitting in Your Rocker in the Retirement Home.
New York Times Bestseller, a Parents Choice Gold Award Winner, an ALA Top Ten Best Books Award winner, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.
Back cover blurb:
“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. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
Stargirl Caraway is a new student at Leo’s narrow-minded, un-extraordinary high school. She is interesting, quirky, enthusiastic, empathetic, eccentric, compassionate, and sincere in everything she does. She dresses in unusual clothing, plays the ukulele during lunchtime, cheers for the other team, and creates cards for total strangers. Leo tells his story of the girl that slipped away, and brings out a bit of the magic and charm that lies deep within us all, waiting to be awakened but hushed by societal standards. Jerry Spinelli conveys the message of embracing nonconformity and having sincerity in our actions, words, and ideas. These themes, while particularly significant in the life of an adolescent, are things that adults could use a remind of as well.
I cannot express in enough words how much I love this book. Everyone needs to read this book. Everybody. No exceptions. Boys, girls, college students, folks in rocking chairs. Despite the fact that the majority of the plot occurs during the “high school years,” it does not limit the audience of people who will enjoy and fall in love with Spinelli’s characters and words. This book will have literary significance to readers from all walks of life.
Works Cited:
Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl. Scholastic Inc.: New York, NY. 2000.
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