In the book "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli, the young girl, Stargirl Caraway, is a new girl in an Arizona High School. She had spent the majority of her education being home school. She now finds herself in a new setting where others find her to be strange. Leo, a friend is in love with her. He wants her to change so that other kids will like her better. The story is about finding one's true self and being different. It is also about the demands of social conformity at a high school level.
Some quotes are as follows:
"She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew." (15)
"I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert." (12)
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