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Brief Summary Of Stargirl By Jerry Spinelli

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Stargirl is a book by Jerry Spinelli based off of a boy named Leo and when he moved from Pennsylvania to Arizona, On the first day of school, Leo makes friends with a boy named Kevin. On the same day there has been talk about a new girl named “Stargirl” Caraway. It appears that she was homeschooled and everyone thought she was weird. One day during lunch, a girl named Hillari Kimble, Hillari makes an exclamation stating that Stargirl is fake and she is just there to bring school spirit back up. After a few weeks people were questioning the rumour, now every lunchtime after she finished eating, she would play her ukulele and sing “Happy Birthday” to random people, they would all applaud her. During a football game Leo throws money for tickets
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