Stargirl also focuses her attention on the mysterious old man who sits by the tombstone of his dead wife Grace day after day, trying to form a relationship by leaving him donuts by the gravesite.Īs spring moves into summer, various town events take place, where Stargirl becomes aware of the existence of a strange boy who will steal and take things at will. As winter moves into spring, Stargirl tries various methods to deal with her sadness and confusion over her boyfriend Leo, including accompanying her milkman father on a milk run. Stargirl goes through everyday life, often taking trips with Dootsie to various locations around town, including Margie's donut shop, where she meets Alvina, a headstrong 11-year-old who has a penchant for beating up boys. Dootsie gets Stargirl to talk about her personal life, and introduces her to Betty Lou, a middle-aged agoraphobic woman who becomes Stargirl's confidant. Stargirl reminisces about life at her high school in Arizona and about Leo however, she soon becomes preoccupied with Dootsie Pringe, the precocious and rambunctious 5-year-old who takes her life by storm.
The letter depicts not only Stargirl's new life in Pennsylvania, but also her emotional struggles in dealing with the loss of Leo. "Love, Stargirl" begins on New Year's Day as the first of many entries in the "world's longest letter" from the main character Stargirl to her former boyfriend Leo. It picks up where the previous novel left off after Stargirl left Mica High and describes her bittersweet memories in the town of Mica, Arizona along with the involvements of new people in her life. This book is the sequel to the "New York Times" bestselling book, " Stargirl" and centers around "the world's longest letter" in diary form. Ages 12-up.Publisher = Knopf Books for Young Readersįollowed_by = "Love, Stargirl" is a novel by Jerry Spinelli. Readers should embrace Stargirl's originality and bigheartedness, and may be inspired to document their own emotional ups and downs in the Stargirl Journal, available the same month, which consists of blank lined pages with quotations from both novels. She also meets a boy with a mysterious past their brief romance and other events combine to lift Stargirl out of her doldrums, as she reconciles her feelings about Leo ("You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow"). There are some things they don't teach you in homeschool.") Stargirl spends most of her time with a talkative six-year-old, Dootsie, a grumpy girl named Alvina, and a handful of older locals with their own quirks and problems. ("You have your whole life ahead of you, and all you're doing is looking back.
Her entries are peppered with poetry as well as little pep talks she writes to herself whenever her spirits are low. Having moved from Arizona to Pennsylvania, Stargirl records her thoughts, observations and emotions in near daily (unsent) missives to Leo, as she works to move beyond her sadness. In Newbery Medalist Spinelli's sequel to his 2000 novel Stargirl, readers join the eponymous heroine and find out how she is coping after being dumped by Leo Borlock.
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