As part of this goal, I picked up Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli to fulfill the youth fiction category. It is a book about a high school in Arizona. There is a girl that has been home schooled her entire life but then decides to go to a public school. She is incredibly different and everyone thinks she is completely crazy. She doesn't care what people think about her and she continues to do whatever she wants. Slowly, people begin to recognize the beauty of her being different. One of my favorite lines in the books is, "It is a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against."
It is a fabulous book and I highly recommend it!
After I finished Stargirl, I also read the sequel Love, Stargirl that continues the story. I didn't love the sequel as much as the first book, but I did still enjoy it. Go read at least Stargirl!!
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I loved stargirl when I read in college have yet to read to sequel.
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