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Stargirl Jerry Spinelli I. Porcupine Necktie A. When I was twelve, we moved from Pennsylvania to Arizona. B. Uncle Pete gave me his porcupine necktie as a going-away present. C. I started a porcupine necktie collection. D. My mother called the local newspaper to say that Leo Borlock collects porcupine neckties. E. For my birthday, I received a porcupine necktie from an unknown source. F. We were all being watched.

II. Chapter 1 A. There is a new girl in school named Stargirl Caraway. 1. She wore a very long white dress with ruffles. 2. The dress looked like her grandmother’s wedding gown. 3. Stargirl had sandy colored hair. 4. She carried a ukulele. 5. She carried a canvas bag with a sunflower on it. 6. Stargirl has been homeschooled. B. Hot Seat 1. In school TV show started a year ago. 2. Leo producer; Kevin on air host. 3. Student interviewed monthly. C. Stargirl strums her ukulele and sings. 1. She was marching among the tables. 2. She was twirling. D. Stargirl’s facial appearance. 1. She wore no make-up. 2. Freckles over the bridge of her nose. 3. Eyes as big as deer’s eyes caught in head lights. E. Leo and Kevin decide to put Stargirl on Hot Seat.

III. Chapter 2 A. Hillari Kimble calls Stargirl fake. 1. She says that Stargirl is an actress and that she is a scam. 2. Hillari says that the administration wants more school spirit because it was too dead last year. 3. Hillari Kimble’s theory spread throughout the school and was widely accepted. 4. Leo does not believe that Stargirl is a plant. B. Stargirl wears unique clothing. 1. Stargirl wore a 1920s flapper dress. 2. She wore Indian buckskin. 3. Stargirl wore a kimono. 4. She wore a denim miniskirt with green stockings and crawling up one leg was a parade of enamel ladybug and butterfly pins. 5. Normal for her was long floor-brushing pioneer dresses and skirts. C. Stargirl asks weird questions in class. 1. Stargirl asks about trolls, in U.S. History class. 2. She made up a song about isosceles triangles called “Three Sides Have I, But only Two Are Equal.” 3. She joined the cross-country team. a. She runs left when they run right. b. She kept running and they kicked her off the team. D. A girl saw Stargirl’s pet rat, Cinnamon inside of her canvas bag. E. Stargirl stays out in the rain and dances when the teacher says to come inside. F. Leo thinks of Stargirl in the moonlight and comes to realize that Stargirl is real.

IV. Chapter 3 A. Kevin and Leo fight daily about putting Stargirl on Hot Seat. 1. Every day, Kevin asked Leo if we signed Stargirl up. 2. Leo didn’t want to put Stargirl on Hot Seat. 3. He wanted to leave Stargirl “alone.” B. “Hillari’s Hypothesis,” called by Kevin was theories about Stargirl. 1. She was trying to get herself discovered for the movies. 2. She was sniffing fumes. 3. She was homeschooling gone amok. 4. She was an alien. 5. She lived in a ghost town in the desert. 6. She lived in a bus. 7. Her parents were circus acrobats. 8. Her parents were witches. 9. Her parents were brain-dead vegetables in a hospital in Yuma. C. Stargirl continued to be unique. 1. She laughed when there was no joke. 2. She danced when there was no music. 3. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. 4. She said there was no television in her house. 5. She was elusive, she was today, and she was tomorrow. D. Leo followed Stargirl after school. 1. They trekked all over Mica. 2. Through the Tudorized shopping center, skirting the electronics business park around the city. 3. Stargirl pulled out a piece of paper and put it in somebody’s mailbox. 4. Leo read it and it said “CONGRATULATIONS!” and was unsigned. 5. Stargirl kept going pass the highway into the desert. 6. Leo got a bit scared and went back to the highway.

V. Chapter 4 A. Hillari Kimble was famous for her mouth, the hoax and Wayne Parr. 1. Her mouth spoke for herself, most often to complain. 2. She tried out for the cheerleading team. a. She made the cheerleading team. b. She turned down the offer; she only wanted to prove that she could make it. 3. Wayne Parr was her boyfriend. B. Wayne Parr was Hillari Kimble’s boyfriend. 1. Mouth wise he was her opposite, seldom opened his. 2. Wayne Parr was very attractive. 3. Wayne Parr was famous for doing nothing. 4. When he was interviewed for Hot Seat, he said he wanted to become a male model and he reads GQ.(Gentlemen’s Quarters)

VI. Chapter 5 A. Stargirl goes to a football games. 1. She roamed from goalpost to goalpost. 2. She swirled like a dust devil. 3. She marched stiffly like a wooden soldier. 4. She tooted an imaginary flute. 5. She pogoed into the air and knocked her bare heals together. B. For the next home game, more than a thousand people showed up. 1. The refreshment stand ran out of hotdogs. 2. A second policeman was called in. 3. The sense of expectation grew as the first-half came to a close. 4. The band marched onto the field. Even they were looking around. 5. The musicians did their program. They seemed to linger. C. Mallory Stillwell, captain of the cheerleading team sat with Stargirl. 1. She sat with her, ate with her, and walked out with her. 2. The whole school knew: Stargirl had been invited to be a cheerleader and said yes.

VII. Chapter 6 A. Hillari warns Stargirl. 1. Hillari moved around to the side and introduced herself. 2. She jabbed her finger in Stargirl’s face and said “Don’t try singing to me.” 3. Stargirl gave a faint reply, “I won’t sing to you.” B. Stargirl began strumming and humming. 1. She came to Hillari Kimble’s table and kept on walking, right up to the table where Kevin and I sat with the Hot Seat crew. 2. She stopped and sang “Happy Birthday” to me. 3. It was Hillari’s name at the end of the song. 4. Kevin asked Stargirl why him? She responded he’s cute. C. Kevin reached over and yanked the same earlobe; I think it’s time to go see Archie.

VIII. Chapter 7 A. A.H. (Archibald Hapwood) Brubaker lived in a house of bones. 1. Jawbones, hipbones, femurs. 2. There were bones in every room, every closet, on the back porch. 3. Some people have stone cats on their roof; on his roof he has a skeleton of Monroe, his deceased Siamese. 4. Take a seat in his bathroom and you’ll find the faintly smirking skull of Doris a prehistoric creodont. 5. Archie was not morbid; he was a paleontologist. The bones were from digs he had done throughout the American West. 6. Many were rightly his found in his spare time. B. Every Saturday morning his house became a school. 1. Fourth-graders, twelfth graders, all were welcome. 2. No tests, no grades, no attendance record. 3. Just the best school most of us had ever gone to. 4. He covered everything from toothpaste to tapeworms and somehow made it all fit. 5. He called us the Loyal Order of the Stone Bone. C. We found him, as usual, on the back porch, rocking and reading. 1. The porch, bathed in red-gold light of sunset, faced the Maricopa. 2. They talk about Stargirl. 3. Kevin says she’s from another planet. 4. They ask if she is an act and he responds no. IX. Chapter 8 A. By December first, Stargirl Caraway had become the most popular person. 1. In fact, she never stopped cheering. 2. She ran straight across the fifty yard line and joined the other team’s cheerleaders. B. Several days after the birthday song, I heard a shout down the hallway. “Don’t.” 1. A crowd was gathered at the top of a stairwell. They were all staring at something. 2. Hillari Kimble was standing at the upper landing. 3. She held Cinnamon and dangled him by its tail over the railing. 4. Again, a voice rang out: “Don’t” Hillari then dropped it. C. Was it Dori Dilson? 1. Dori Dilson was a brown-haired ninth-grader. 2. She wrote poems in a loose-leaf notebook half as big as herself. 3. Nobody knew her name until the day she sat down Stargirl’s table for lunch. D. We honored Stargirl by imitation. 1. A chorus of ukuleles strummed in the lunchroom. 2. Flowers appeared on classroom desks. 3. One day it rained and a dozen girls ran outside to dance. 4. The pet shop at the Mica Mall ran out of rats. E. We gathered in the auditorium for the annual oratorical contest. 1. The event was open to any high school student who cared to show his or her stuff as a public speaker. 2. The microphone was yours for seven minutes, talk about anything you like. 3. The winner would move on to the district competition. F. Stargirl entered the contest. 1. She gave an animated speech a performance really, titled “Elf Owl, Call Me by My First Name.” 2. Her gray-brown homesteader’s dress was the color of her subject. 3. When she finished, we stomped on the floor and whistled and shouted for more. 4. Stargirl was the winner and would move onto the district competition.

X. Chapter 9 A. The author, Jerry Spinelli makes a comparison with mud frogs and students. 1. He says that frogs lie dormant and waiting, for without water their lives are incomplete. 2. They lie like this for many months until the rain comes. 3. Hundreds of eyes pop out of the mud and at night a hundred voices call across the moonlit water. B. Stargirl was the rain. 1. Kids whose voices had never been heard before spoke up in class. 2. “Letters to the Editor” filled a whole page of the school newspaper’s December edition. 3. More than a hundred kids tried out for the Spring Revue. 4. One kid started a camera club. 5. Another wore Hush Puppies instead of sneakers. 6. A plain timid girl painted her toenails kelly green. 7. A boy showed up with purple hair. C. Leo visits Archie and says “It’s a miracle!” 1. It was a golden age, those few weeks in December and Janurary. 2. How could I know that when the end came, I would be in the middle of it?

XI. Chapter 10 A. All my resistance to putting Stargirl on the Hot Seat vanished. 1. “Okay” I said to Kevin, “Let’s do it, schedule her.” 2. He started off, I grabbed his arm and said “Wait, ask her first.” 3. Nobody had ever said no to the “Hot Seat.” 4. Any reluctance to answering personal or embarrassing questions always yielded to the appearance on TV. 5. But, I thought Stargirl would different. B. Kevin came at me thumbs-up and grinning, “It’s a go” 1. First, I was surprised. It didn’t fit my impression of her. 2. I didn’t know that this was an early glimpse of something. 3. She was far more normal than I thought. C. In the courtyard of our school stood a five-foot sheet of plywood in the shape of a roadrunner. 1. One day we found the following computer printout taped to the plywood. 2. “I pledge allegiance to the United Turtles of America and to the fruit bats of Borneo, one planet in the Milky way incredible, with justice and black burritos for all. 3. This is how she says the Pledge of Allegiance. D. A senior girl, Anna Grisdale lost her grandfather after a long illness. 1. The funeral took place on a Saturday morning. 2. For a while, everything seemed “normal” the crowd of people at the church, the line of cards with headlights on, the smaller group clustered around the grave for the final farewell. 3. After the brief graveside service, the funeral director handed everyone a long-stemmed flower. 4. Through her own tears Anna could see that Stargirl was crying also. 5. Afterward, the mourners were invited to Anna’s house for lunch. 6. Suddenly Anna heard her mother’s voice. It was no louder than the others but it was different. 7. “What are you doing here?” She asked Stargirl. 8. She kicked Stargirl out of her home. E. Danny Pike was nine years old. He loved to ride his bike that he got for his birthday. 1. He plowed into a mailbox. He broke his leg, but that wasn’t the worst of it. A blood clot developed. 2. When he arrived home a mob of neighbors, his family and Stargirl were there. 3. A big sign “WELCOME HOME, DANNY” was also there. 4. There was a big bike waiting for him. 5. Nobody had known who bought it.

XII. Chapter 11 A. During the first quarter of each home game, Stargirl went over to the visitors’ section and gave them a cheer. B. She did not limit herself to basketball. 1. In the hallways, if you did something good she would come and cheer for you. 2. A crowd would always form there. C. Early in the season no one noticed. The Electrons were undefeated. 1. The school basketball team kept on winning and everyone got used to winning. 2. Lots of people started coming to the games. 3. Stargirl would always cheer regardless who scored. 4. She got booed and she did not seem to notice. She had no ego. D. The 19th game of the basketball season was played at Red Rock. 1. It was a blow-out, Red Rock was helpless, the Electrons up 78-29. 2. Stargirl got up and walked away from the gym. 3. Afterwards, the cheerleaders asked her why she left. 4. She said that it was no fun since the other team was losing. 5. The cheerleaders told her they left something in the locker room and left without her.

XIII. Chapter 12 A. This is how Hot Seat went 1. It took place in the communications center studio. 2. There were two chairs on stage: the infamous Hot Seat itself and an ordinary chair for the host, Kevin. 3. To the side were two rows of six chairs each, the Jury sat here. 4. Their job was to ask questions, to give Hot Seat its heat. 5. Ticklish questions, embarrassing questions, nosy questions. But not mean or hurtful questions. 6. The chance to confess or lie before a camera and before peers instead of parents is why people wanted to be on Hot Seat. 7. There were three cameras: one for stage, one for jury, and Chico. B. Chico was the handheld close-up camera. 1. According to Mr. Robineau, our faculty advisor, a student named Chico once begged him to be a close-up camera. 2. Mr. Robineau gave him a tryout, but Chico was so skinny that he practically collapsed under the camera. 3. Next year, Chico had muscles, and the camera was nothing. 4. He got the job and he was brilliant at it. 5. He gave the camera its own name. “We are one,” he said. 6. His name stayed behind and the camera is called the Chico. C. Opposite side of the stage was the glassed-in control room, sound insulated from the rest of the studio. 1. That’s where I worked, wearing my headset. 2. I watched the studio, watched the monitors, and directed the shots. 3. I stood at the shoulder of the technical director, or TD. 4. He sat at a rack of buttons, punching up the shots I ordered. 5. Also in the control room were the graphics and audio people. 6. Mr. Robineau was there as faculty overseer, but basically the students worked it all. D. Kevin’s job was to get things started 1. Intro the victim, ask a few opening questions, stir things up if the jury was slow. 2. Usually the jury was on the ball. 3. Typical questions: “Does it bother you that you’re so short?” E. We expected to top ninety percent for the Stargirl show. 1. I had a secret: I wished no one would watch. F. Kevin gave the usual briefing while Mr. Robineau and I checked out the equipment. 1. As the jury came in, they were not dancing, they took their seats. 2. Stargirl was mugging for the cameras with Cinnamon the rat. G. She stared at him. She turned to the live camera. Her eyes were growing wider. 1. “Chico!” I barked. 2. Stargirl’s wonderstruck eyes practically filled the screen. I checked the long-shot monitor. 3. She was frozen, rigid as if electrified to the chair. 4. Mr. Robineau was laughing, saying that she was joking. She was taking the “Hot Seat” literally. H. Kevin held Cinnamon. 1. Cinnamon went inside of his shirt and squirmed around. 2. Everybody tried to get Cinnamon. 3. Stargirl’s pantomime remains the best I have ever seen. 4. Mr. Robineau kept squeezing my shoulder. As he said later, it was the greatest moment in Hot Seat history.

XIV. Chapter 13 A. The jury began to ask questions. 1. Jennifer asked, “What was wrong with the name that your parents gave you?” 2. Stargirl responded “Nothing, it was a good name.” 3. She asked what her real name was; Stargirl responded Susan and said she dropped it because she didn’t like Susan anymore. 4. Stargirl got her name from looking up at the sky. B. Mike Ebersole gets the microphone. 1. He asks “I said, do you love your country?” Stargirl responds yes. 2. He says “Why don’t you say the pledge correctly?” She says that it sounds right to her. C. Becca Rinaldi gets the microphone. 1. She asks why Stargirl cheers for the other team. She responds because she’s a cheerleader. 2. Becca says that she is a Mica cheerleader, only for Mica. D. Hillari Kimble gets the microphone. 1. Hillari asks why she came to this school. Stargirl responds to make friends. 2. Hillari bashes on Stargirl. 3. The studio is filled with chaos and Mr. Robineau stops the show.

XV. Chapter 14 A. Stargirl remained unchanged. 1. Stargirl put a candy heart on everybody in Homeroom 17’s desk. B. There was a play-off basketball game. 1. The Electrons were playing in the districts. 2. The Electrons started to lose 21 to 9, Sun Valley had Ron Kovac. C. Ron Kovac, their star got injured. 1. Stargirl came and put his head on her lap. 2. She was comforting her and the Electrons later won. D. Two days later the Electrons lost to Glendale. 1. The Electrons faced 5 better players. E. Leo receives a valentine from Stargirl.

XVI. Chapter 15 A. Kevin didn’t get a card, but Leo did. B. Stargirl came up to Leo and said “Hi.” C. Kevin and Leo visit Archie for the Loyal Order.

XVII. Chapter 16 A. Stargirl walks up to Leo again. 1. She says, “You’re welcome” 2. Kevin says that she is in love. B. Leo heard that Stargirl got kicked off the cheerleading squad. C. Leo decides to walk to Stargirl’s house. 1. Leo wanted to see Stargirl do everything. D. For a person so different her house was so ordinary. 1. Single story and pale adobe. It had a clay-red pipe tile roof. 2. Not a single blade of grass, but a barrel and prickly pear cacti. E. Stargirl encounters Leo 1. She recalls him following her one day. 2. Cinnamon goes on Leo’s shoe and licks him. 3. Stargirl goes back inside her home.

XVIII. Chapter 17 A. Leo was in love with Stargirl. 1. He says he is loopy with love and Kevin tells him that too. B. Leo and Stargirl meet after school. 1. Stargirl asked him if he believes in enchanted places. 2. Stargirl brings Leo into the desert. C. Leo and Stargirl clear all of their thoughts and memories. D. They walk home together holding hands.

XIX. Chapter 18 A. Leo’s attention was only focused on Stargirl. 1. He could sense her presence. 2. He felt like they were the only two in school. 3. Leo then realized they were being avoided. B. At lunch Leo asked Kevin why? 1. Leo asked why nobody talks to him. 2. Kevin says it’s not him and that it’s Stargirl. C. The silent treatment continued. Stargirl did not notice.

XX. Chapter 19 A. Leo asks Archie for help. 1. Archie explains to Leo the Amish habit of shunning. 2. Archie asks if it happens when Stargirl is not there. It doesn’t. 3. Archie called Leo a dolphin caught in a tuna net. 4. Archer told Leo the solution was to stay away from Stargirl. B. Leo asks Archie if he believes in enchanted places. 1. He responds yes. C. Archie asks Senor Saguaro for help. 1. Senor Saguaro says “Whose affection do you value more, hers or others.” D. In bed, Leo realizes he understood that, but didn’t want to answer.

XXI. Chapter 20 A. Stargirl was involved in the Oratorical Contest. 1. She was Mica High’s winner. 2. She won the district “talk-off” B. Stargirl practices with Leo listening. 1. She practices in the desert. 2. She always adds something new. C. They go to give gifts.

XXII. Chapter 21 A. Leo and Stargirl deliver gifts. 1. On weekends and after dinner, they delivered potted violets. 2. They delivered “CONGRATUALTION” balloons and cards. 3. The cards were hand-made 4. Her people were stick figures, but were meaningful. B. Leo pesters Stargirl about how she knows this all. 1. She said she reads the daily paper. 2. She read the newspaper fillers. 3. She also looks at bulletin boards. C. They decided to play a card game. 1. They went to Redstone Mall. 2. They followed people to see what card they needed. D. Stargirl dropped money throughout the day E. She invited Leo over for dinner.

XXIII. Chapter 22 A. Leo meets Stargirl’s parents. B. Leo saw her mom. 1. She wore shorts and a tank top as she sewed. 2. She was making a Russian Peasant costume. C. Leo meets her dad. 1. Mr. Caraway was on a stepladder, painting. D. Stargirl had a secret office. E. Stargirl has a happy wagon and is filled. F. Stargirl was making a biography of Peter Sinkowitz.

XXIV. Chapter 23 A. Stargirl and Leo continue to be shunned. B. Leo enjoyed his time with Stargirl.

XXV. Chapter 24 A. Stargirl puts a sign, “Stargirl loves Leo” 1. Leo now knew how Hillari felt. B. Leo still got shunned.

XXVI. Chapter 25 A. Days past and Leo avoided Stargirl.
1. He ran and hid, but she hunted him down. B. Leo gets caught by Stargirl. 1. He said something needs to change. 2. Stargirl tries to comfort him. 3. Stargirl doesn’t care what other people think. 4. Leo says that she can’t do what she wants.

XXVII. Chapter 26 A. Stargirl arrives at school. 1. She got a makeover and calls herself Susan. B. Stargirl’s appearance was way different.
1. She wore jeans and sandals. 2. She had burnt-red nails. 3. Lipstick, painted eyes, finger rings, toe rings and hoop earrings. C. Leo was thrilled. 1. He invited Stargirl and Dori Dilson to his table. 2. Dori disappeared. D. Stargirl does everything normal. 1. They hung out at the movies and mall. 2. She made up “Evelyn,” as a role model. E. She had a vision; she’d win the Oratorical Contest and become popular.

XXVIII. Chapter 27 A. Stargirl and Leo got into a car. 1. Dori doesn’t come because “Stargirl betrayed herself.” 2. Stargirl said that Dori will be waiting when she wins. B. Stargirl has extreme high hopes to win. C. Stargirl gets out of the car. 1. She stands still for two minutes. 2. She asks about extinct birds. They talk about mockingbirds.

XXIX. Chapter 28 A. The finals were taking place that evening. 1. Stargirl made the cut, her speech was amazing. 2. She made it up on the spot. B. Stargirl jumped when her name was called and said “Hi.” 1. She chattered away and that was her speech. 2. She had won. The cheering was wild.

XXX. Chapter 29 A. Stargirl held up the silver plate and was mobbed. 1. She was so happy and proud. 2. She yelped and hugged everyone. B. Everybody had acknowledged that she had won. 1. Everybody knew that Stargirl had won. 2. Everyone congratulated her. C. When they arrived back to the school only two teachers and Dori Dilson was waiting for them.

XXXI. Chapter 30 A. Stargirl was in disbelief. B. Susan returned to being Stargirl. 1. Floor-length skirt and ribbons in her hair. 2. She strummed her ukulele. 3. Cinnamon was perched on her shoulder. C. Stargirl knew that Leo wasn’t going to ask her to the Ocotillo Ball. 1. Leo wasn’t even going. D. There was a sign on the Roadrunner for the “Ukee Dooks.” E. Stargirl and Dori do a duet in school, but nobody cares.

XXXII. Chapter 31 A. The Ocotillo Ball took place on the tennis courts of the Mica Country Club. B. Stargirl went to the Ocotillo Ball alone. 1. She arrived in a bicycle sidecar driven by Dori Dilson. 2. She wore a strapless rich yellow gown. 3. Her hair was the color of honey. 4. She wore her Loyal Order of Stone Bone member necklace. 5. She wore a sunflower corsage. C. A boy named Raymond Studemacher asked Stargirl to dance. D. A long line was snaking across with Stargirl leading them. 1. Everyone danced the Bunny Hop except for Hillari and Wayne. E. Hillari Kimble demanded new music, but they just played louder. F. Hillari walked up to Stargirl and slapped her. 1. Stargirl kisses her. G. Stargirl disappears. XXXIII. Chapter 32 A. 15 years later Stargirl’s house is for sale. B. Archie tells Leo she moved to Minnesota. C. Stargirl’s office was at Archie’s shed. 1. She had a calendar of birthdays. 2. She had lots of homemade cards and files on people.

XXXIV. Chapter 33 A. Leo visits Archie whenever he returns. B. They drove into the desert. C. Archie digs up a hole and puts Barney in there. D. Archie no longer lives in his house. 1. Senor Saguaro was gone. 2. The shed was also gone. E. An elementary school occupied Stargirl’s enchanted place.

XXXV. More Than Stars A. Leo’s class had reunions, but he never showed. 1. There was much talk about Stargirl. 2. Hillari and Wayne broke up. B. Kevin lives in Mica and has a family. 1. They still keep in touch. 2. He’s an insurance salesman. C. Everybody talks about Stargirl. D. The high school has a program, “The Sunflowers.” They vow to do something good every day. E. Leo is now a set designer because of Stargirl. 1. He leaves change on the ground and reads the newspaper. 2. He feels guilty about buying cards. F. He receives a porcupine necktie for his birthday.