![]() Formerly home-schooled, Stargirl is a sophomore like no one Leo (or any of the other Mica students) has ever met before: On the first day the name on everyone's lips is Stargirl. The story continues when Leo is a junior in high school. Until his fourteenth birthday when an unknown someone presented Leo with his second tie, someone who was watching from the sidelines. For two years, Leo's collection stood at one tie. Around the time of his move, Leo decided to start collecting porcupine neckties-no easy task, especially in Mica. The story starts with Leo Borlock, who moved to Mica, Arizona at the age of twelve. I'll say it again: Stargirl is a classic. Classics are the books you want to immerse yourself in: the books you wish you could live in with the characters that you wish were your friends. It needs to be a book that you enjoy more every time you read it or talk about it. A classic also needs to have memorable writing and characters. ![]() This designation raises the question: What makes a book (any book) a classic? For me it means a book that is timeless something you can read years and years after it was written without the book losing its vibrancy. ![]() ![]() Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is a young adult classic (maybe even a children's classic but that's really a cataloguing issue that I am ill-equipped to discuss). ![]()
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