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For more ideas, visit the author’s Stargirl Web page. Hold regular meetings, and host special events like an Inner-Beauty Pageant. Start a Stargirl Society at your school.Conversely, select a key scene from the book and write it as a poem. Select one of the poems and rewrite it as a field report that contains facts about where Stargirl has visited. There are several poems written by Stargirl on her various field trips in Love, Stargirl.

126) Based on the content of the poem, what would be the time for each of the following characters: Leo, Stargirl, Dootsie, Alvina, Betty Lou. What does this poem suggest about how differently each person measures time? (p.

On her field trip to the clock on the Morning Lenape Building, Stargirl reflects about clocks and time.

What does this observation reveal about Stargirl and her sense of herself? Even when she is sitting alone on the hill, she feels as if she is at the center of the universe.

Stargirl writes to Leo early in the novel that nothing is empty.

What details help to reveal more about these characters: Perry, Betty Lou, Stargirl’s mother and father, Stargirl herself. For instance, Dootsie adores ketchup and Alvina wears a necklace with Winnie the Pooh dangling from it. But the second one cosists of letters from star girl to Leo about her everyday life in. One method of developing characters is through extensive use of details about each person. The first book was just creepy, scary, confusing, and romantic. Stargirl is the latest hit from DC Universe that also has a place to call home on the CW.

Spinelli develops characters effectively in many ways.

Their six children have given Jerry Spinelli a plethora of clever material for his writing.įor more information about the author, watch our video interview with Jerry Spinelli.

While they write in separate rooms of the house, the couple edits and celebrates one another’s work together. He lives with his wife and fellow writer, Eileen, in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He made his picture book debut with My Daddy and Me, a loving tribute to fathers and sons. Jerry Spinelli is the author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Maniac Magee, winner of the Newbery Medal, and Stargirl, a New York Times bestseller and an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults. In the “longest letter ever” to her old boyfriend, Leo, Stargirl explores the magic in her new home and her decision to mark time in her own unique way. Stargirl, never one with an inclination to conform, empathizes with the outcasts, making many of them her new friends. She notices the agoraphobic neighbor, the seemingly homeless young boy, and others who do not fit in easily. Stargirl Caraway explores her new neighborhood with an eye for the unusual.