I have recently started reading "Star Girl," by Jerry Spinelli. I've heard people talk about this book that they read when they were younger, but since I've never read it, I decided to. It's about a very unique girl who calls herself Star Girl. She started a High School in Arizona with a boy named Leo, after being home schooled for her whole life. At first her outgoing ways are insulted, then eventually become an important part of the school.
I think the school kids were first so skeptical of her ways because they had just seen no one like her before. Who was so ego - less and put everyone in front of herself. But also because of her caring ways, they learned to like her. And that's when everyone started to express themselves, instead of being the whole body of school they used to be. Before Star Girl, the main character once said that anyone who started to express individuality would snap back like a rubber band.
All in all, she did endure a lot of bullying before she began to be accepted. If a school was such strict principals was introduced to someone with such little principles it's not surprising to see them react with such confusion. I think the moral of this story is to accept all people, and how they act. I think this book sticks with that theme throughout the whole story, with their examples of bullying and impressions.
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