Stargirl passes her days in a variety of ways from "mind washing" or meditating to writing poetry at various locations around town. This includes Dootsie Pringle, the five-year-old pip who interrupts one of Stargirl's meditation sessions Charlie, the man who passes his days by his wife's grave and Perry Deloplane, the thug-turned-love-interest in Stargirl's life.
Very soon in the novel, however, Stargirl begins to meet the characters that will become her closest friends. Most of Stargirl's early letters are laced with longing for her life back home as she struggles to assimilate to the new town.
The entire novel is comprised of letters written to Leo from Stargirl in the wake of her move. Love, Stargirl is the story of seventeen-year-old Stargirl Caraway's adjustment to her new town after leaving behind her friends in a move to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania for her final year of high school.Īt the opening of the novel, it is clear that Stargirl is extremely lonely for her friends back home, particularly her ex-boyfriend, Leo Borlock.
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