Sometimes homeschooled kids are like that. She’s a bit quirky, but otherwise a normal good kid. We see some of her thought process, and her actions make perfect sense to her. The book is a very long letter (more like a diary sometimes) that Stargirl is writing to Leo. The whole thing is from her perspective, so we see what’s going on in her head. Stargirl doesn’t appear to be on the autism spectrum, at least in this book. And it clears some things up for me from the first one. But seven years after he wrote the first, he started a fun little project that turned into a full-blown book. He usually doesn’t write sequels as a rule. Jerry Spinelli never really intended to write a sequel to Stargirl. (This fulfills the 2021 CBR 13 Bingo square of “Old Series”) Sure, when eccentric behavior first shows itself it will be looked at and talked about, but eventually it’s accepted as normal for that person and everyone moves on.
Maybe I’m just lucky in that the classrooms I often find myself in are fairly void of bullying for being different. You want to wear long peasant skirts every day? You do you. Seeing a ukulele in a high school hallway is not an unheard of event. The element of social media would be huge, of course, but I feel like individuality is praised more than conformity now. I also wonder how the events of the book would have changed if it were to take place today. She sees the good in people and notices the little things, and cruelty seems to baffle her. She sees things in a different way, and certainly sees the world through rose-colored glasses. There have been debates on whether Stargirl is supposed to be on the autism spectrum, but I don’t think she is. Teenagers are a fickle, changeable lot who easily fall into herd mentality. She never changes who she is for these changes to happen, it’s people’s perceptions of her that change. She doesn’t wear what everyone else wears (she prefers long flowy skirts to jeans and sandals), she doesn’t wear makeup, she carries around a rat and a ukulele. She is different than anyone in the town of Mica has ever seen before. And that’s a good portion of who he is before the start of the story. He visits a popular eccentric retired professor to learn about life and to get advice. He has a best friend Kevin, and is the director of the school interview show, The Hot Seat. Our narrator is Leo, a sixteen year old Junior in high school. It’s a time before cell phones, that’s for certain. But how far in the past? Was it supposed to be current to the publishing date, or was it supposed to take place in the 1990’s, the 1980’s? We’re not really sure, and I suppose it doesn’t really matter.
The book was published in 2000 or 2001, and it definitely doesn’t take place in the future. But for the when, there can be some movement there. We know where, the fictional town of Mica, Arizona, which is a new town that came to be because of a business. I’m not sure when this book is supposed to take place.
Are stargirl and love stargirl different movie#
I’d heard about it, and there’s a movie now, so I figured I would give it a shot. I read one of his middle grade books a few years ago, but this was the first one aimed at teens. I didn’t read Jerry Spinielli growing up, which I guess might seem odd because he was writing books for my age group.
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