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​ = = Stargirl by: Jerry Spinelli media type="youtube" key="tMoXMhql0L0" height="344" width="425" I picked this youtube video because it shows how my book, Stargirl, is. It doesn't show it exactly like the book. In fact, it shows the story from Stargirl's point of view, while in the book it shows Leo's point of view. From looking at how Stargirl is in the video, this is how i pictured her in the book. Except, i always pictured her with bigger eyes, like they do in the book. Unfortunately, I do not think that Leo looks at all how I pictured him in the book and that disappoints me. The video also says that Stargirl is writing a longest letter to Leo and I don't remember reading about that in the book so that means that this video might be after the book ended. Also I liked how Stargirl told you how she put the last two pebbles in her happy wagon. Her happy wagon is a wagon that she puts pebbles in according to how happy she is. She had never gotten twenty pebbles before so it was good to know that she did.

This is the title cover on my book: Stargirl

This a picture of a rat. I think that this is important because Stargirl has a pet rat named Cinnamon. Cinnamon was always in Stargirl's purse and everywhere Stargirl went, Cinnamon followed. When Leo and Stargirl were just beginning to get to know each other more Cinnamon was there to make things less awkward. Cinnamon was Stargirl's only real friend because as more people loved her and wanted to be like her, they were all just fake, but Cinnamon was always there. Also when Stargirl was really popular in the beginning of the book, because she had a rat everyone got one. Also an important part of the book was when Stargirl went on the Hot Seat and Cinnamon made the aucience of the show freak out. He ran all over the ground and was quite the distraction of the cameras.



This is a picture of cheerleading and poms equipment. This is important because it represents Stargirl's cheerleading. In the very begining of the book, Stargirl was extremely popular. Everything she did or anything she had, everyone copied. Because she was so popular, the cheerleader wanted to put her on the squad. Stargirl said yes because she loves to sing and dance. The problem with Stargirl was that she was not mean, and since she was not mean she couldn't stop herself from cheering for the other team. This made MICA (her school) very very frustrated at her. This frustration kept on escalating until it finally became total anger and hate for Stargirl. Stargirl went from being the most popular girl at school to being the most hated person at school all because of her being a cheerleader.

 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.

I choose this quote because it describes Stargirl perfectly. She was elusive, today, and tomorrow. Everyone in the book realized it and tried to copy her. They discovered that they couldn't so then they began to resent her. None of them realized that you can't copy something like her because everyone is themselves and people just need to realize that and act how they want to act, not how someone else is acting. I like how the quote says that they tried to pin her down in their mind but that the pin merely went through and she flew away. I like that because that is exactly what had happened. They couldn't brand her to act and look like everyone else there and so they got mad when the pin went through.   "He says it all boils down to this: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'? The senior says that the everything will follow from that."

I like this quote for many reasons. Reason number one is because not only is this applied to the main character in the book but also to people on our school, town, and world. I find it ridiculous that so many people will change what they're going to do or say simply because "other" people think or do something else. Also like this quote because this is one of the main problems for Leo in the book. In the book Leo loves Stargirl and wants to be with her but when they're at school and he sees how everyone ignores and shuns Stargirl, he doesn't like being around her. In my opinion he just needs to decide about who he cares more about, them or her. That is why I like this quote. I like it because I agree with it 100% on how he needs to choose.

In every way she seemed to be a typical, ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill teenager. And it wasn't working.

This quote is a very important part of the book in my opinion. This is important because this is where Stargirl attempts to be a regular teenager. She goes back to her real name Susan, dresses like everyone else, talks like everyone else, and is constantly asking Leo if she is doing it right. She really tries hard because that is what Leo wants her to be, normal. Even though she tries to act normal she just can't do it correctly. Her real personality is anything but normal. Leo at first doesn't realize this and can't get past the fact that she is normal. He is so happy hat he isn't going to have to choose between her or them that he doesn't realize that people are still shunning her. He doesn't realize that Stargirl was never meant to be normal. Stargirl tries really hard to be normal but she can see that people still don't like her. So she decides to go back to her normal self after about a month of being fake. This quote is important because it says how Stargirl tried something that she knew she wouldn't be able to do just because she loved Leo so much.

 This book actually made me absolutely love the books By: Jerry Spinelli! It was so interesting, and it would keep you saying, "One more chapter please!" I think it was interesting and since I researched about the author I could make a lot of connections and even more differences! I personally think he is a really good author and is on the top of my list of favorite authors. For the book Loser, from a scale of 1-5 I would give it a 5. It is really good and you should read it!

The book at the beginning is interresting and exciting. Then it ends up getting boring because Stargirl acts like a freak. I hate this book because stargirl acts so freaky.

well in my opinion i think it was pretty weird, the girl really freaked me out and i ended up not even reading the rest of the book cause it was just plain disturbing.