Star Girl By Jerry Spinelli

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The book i chosen to read over the summer was the book called Star Girl. Star girl was written by Jerry Spinelli. Furthermore the main idea of the story is there this girl who is named star girl decides to switch from being home schooled to being in a public school. Star Girl was a free spirited girl. And she was different from the typical teenage girls which were portrayed in this story. For a while a lot of people hated her for her uniqueness. However she eventually tried and changed her ways to become popular but in the end it just backfired.

Furthermore, the prompt i decided to choose was a major conflict that had occurred throughout this book. The whole conflict was Star Girl being liked by very few people in the school.

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