Add a thrilling adventure and all the makings of an entrancing read are here. Beautifully written, this is filled with evocative language that is rich in imagery and nuance and speaks to the connections that bind us all. Painfully aware of not fitting into suburban teen life in her native Maryland, Clara awakens to feeling alive in Mexico and realizes a sweet first love with Pedro, a charming goat herder. Clara’s journey into her grandmother’s history (told in alternating chapters with Clara’s own first-person narrative) and her discovery that she, like her grandmother and ancestors, has a gift for healing, awakens her to the simple, mystical joys of a rural lifestyle she comes to love and wholly embrace.
illegally years before, subsequently becoming a successful business owner who never spoke about what he left behind. Long estranged from his parents, Clara’s father had entered the U.S. When Clara Luna, 14, visits rural Mexico for the summer to visit the paternal grandparents she has never met, she cannot know her trip will involve an emotional and spiritual journey into her family’s past and a deep connection to a rich heritage of which she was barely aware.
The wish-fulfilling title and sun-washed, catalog-beautiful teens on the cover will be enticing for girls looking for a diversion. Besides the mostly off-stage issue of a parent’s severe illness there’s not much here to challenge most readers-driving, beer-drinking, divorce, a moment of surprise at the mothers smoking medicinal pot together. He knows that if he chooses Stargirl he would loose all his friends in the school and have everyone ignore him, but if he chooses everyone else over Stargirl, he would loose his love Stargirl. In the background the two mothers renew their friendship each year, and Lauren, Belly’s mother, provides support for her friend-if not, unfortunately, for the children-in Susannah’s losing battle with breast cancer. I think that this question is important to Leo because he not only wants Stargirl’s love and affection, but he also wants other people to notice him and his popularity. Belly’s dawning awareness of her sexuality and that of the boys is a strong theme, as is the sense of summer as a separate and reflective time and place: Readers get glimpses of kisses on the beach, her best friend’s flirtations during one summer’s visit, a first date. Belly measures her growing self by these summers and by her lifelong relationship with the older boys, her brother and her mother’s best friend’s two sons. Louis Post-Dispatch "Touching and inspiring." - VOYA "The many readers who loved the first book will embrace this sequel.Han’s leisurely paced, somewhat somber narrative revisits several beach-house summers in flashback through the eyes of now 15-year-old Isabel, known to all as Belly. He is known to collect ties with porcupines on them. He is 16 years old and Attends Mica High School in Mica, Arizona. She has left Mica High in Arizona and, more importantly, her boyfriend Leo. Anyone who survived or is enduring the teenage years will repeatedly recognize him or herself in these pages-and find the book hard to put down." - St. Leo Borlock is the narrator and deuteragonist of the first book, Stargirl. Love, Stargirl picks up where Stargirl left off. As charming and unique as its sensitive, nonconformist heroine." - School Library Journal "Anyone who loved Jerry Spinelli's beautiful, poignant young adult novel Stargirl is in for a treat with his latest novel. In Love, Stargirl, we hear the voice of Stargirl herself as she reflects on time, life, Leo, and - of course - love. Louis Post-Dispatch "Touching and inspiring." - VOYA "The many readers who loved the first book will embrace this sequel." - Booklist, "Humor, graceful writing, lively characters, and important lessons about life will make this a hit with fans of Stargirl. Anyone who survived or is enduring the teenage years will repeatedly recognize him or herself in these pages-and find the book hard to put down." - St.
As charming and unique as its sensitive, nonconformist heroine." - School Library Journal "Anyone who loved Jerry Spinelli's beautiful, poignant young adult novel Stargirl is in for a treat with his latest novel. "Humor, graceful writing, lively characters, and important lessons about life will make this a hit with fans of Stargirl.
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