Review Stargirl
Stargirl Free download å 2 ð A celebration of nonconformity; a tense emotional tale about the fleeting cruel nature of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love Ages 12Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School don't stand out under any circumstances Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes for Leo and fThing changes for Leo and for the entire school After 15 years of home schooling Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music enchanting the Mica student bodyBut the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift and Stargirl is shunned for everything that m. Stargirl is an amazing book about individuality and nonconformism A home schooled girl named Stargirl begins attending the public high school for her sopho year Stargirl is differentShe learns everybody's birthdays and on the day of she sings them a happy birthday song accompanying herself on the ukulele in the middle of the lunch room whether they want her to or not She watches a young boy who lives across the street so that she can create a scrapbook for him without his knowledge She is in almost every way unconventionalThe voice of the book is a young man who becomes fascinated by Stargirl and befriends her even though many of her antics make her an outcast otherwise Through a series of events she becomes wildly popular then widely despised For this boy she experiments with being conventional for awhileThe book is fascinating It explores a lot of issues centered around social conventions and how they play in our lives for good or ill And they take place at a stage of life when kids are most susceptible to peer pressure Jerry Spinelli's insights are thought provoking and engaging In the end the book makes you want to be a better person perhaps in ways that aren't uite normal It reminds me of a talk given by Dallin H Oaks in which he said This reuires us to make some changes from our family culture our ethnic culture or our national culture We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel commandments covenants and culture The genius of it is that the book does this without being particularly preachyIn its philosophy and to a lesser extent in its style the book has strong similarities to Bridge to Terabithia
StargirlThing changes for Leo and for the entire school After 15 years of home schooling Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music enchanting the Mica student bodyBut the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift and Stargirl is shunned for everything that m. Stargirl is an amazing book about individuality and nonconformism A home schooled girl named Stargirl begins attending the public high school for her sopho year Stargirl is differentShe learns everybody's birthdays and on the day of she sings them a happy birthday song accompanying herself on the ukulele in the middle of the lunch room whether they want her to or not She watches a young boy who lives across the street so that she can create a scrapbook for him without his knowledge She is in almost every way unconventionalThe voice of the book is a young man who becomes fascinated by Stargirl and befriends her even though many of her antics make her an outcast otherwise Through a series of events she becomes wildly popular then widely despised For this boy she experiments with being conventional for awhileThe book is fascinating It explores a lot of issues centered around social conventions and how they play in our lives for good or ill And they take place at a stage of life when kids are most susceptible to peer pressure Jerry Spinelli's insights are thought provoking and engaging In the end the book makes you want to be a better person perhaps in ways that aren't uite normal It reminds me of a talk given by Dallin H Oaks in which he said This reuires us to make some changes from our family culture our ethnic culture or our national culture We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel commandments covenants and culture The genius of it is that the book does this without being particularly preachyIn its philosophy and to a lesser extent in its style the book has strong similarities to Bridge to Terabithia