Stargirl
Don't change for anybody
Characters
Leo: Leo is an 11th grade student/Hot Seat producer. He meets a different girl named Stargirl and he has a crush on her.Stargirl: Stargirl is the new girl at Mica High and at the beginning of the year people like her but as the year progresses the student body starts to hate her.Archie: Archie is a retired school teacher. Leo and Stargirl go to Archies house when they have problems and he gives them advice.
Kids Pick
My favorite part of the book is when Cinnamon was on Leos shoulder licking the crusty stuff on his ears
Personification: The sun lay down behind the mountains (pg. 18)
The sun was setting behind the mountains.
Simile: We both thought the prickly paer cactus looked like ping-pong paddles with whiskers, and that saguaros looked like dinosaur mittens.(pg. 13-14)
Prickly Pear cactus and Ping-Pong paddles compared and Saguaro Cactus and Dinosaur Mittens
Idiom: The rat she brought to school was only the tip of the iceberg.(pg. 14)
Tip of the iceberg-Only the beginning
Pg. 24 The bleachers screamed back "EEEE!". Pg. 24 Finally they marched to the sidelines. Pg. 25 People in Phoenix must have heard us buzzing. Pg. 62 He was squirming. Pg. 99 She jabbered constantly in my ear.
Summary
Stargirl is the new girl at school and at first people think she is different and people like her but as the story goes on they start to hate her. At the beginning Kevin wants Leo to ask her to be on Hot Seat. When she agrees to be on Hot Seat the jury (audience) scream at her saying hateful things why they dont like her. The student body shuns her. They do not talk to her and they do not look at her. After the Octillo Ball she dissapears for 15 years.