Stargirl book review #4

                                                            Stargirl
         

The book I read was Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Stargirl is a story about a boy telling the story of a girl named Stargirl. Three years earlier  Leo recieves a porcipine tie from his uncle and three years after that on Leo's Birthday, he recieves another porcipine nectie. Stargirl arrives at Mica high in Arizona and immedaintly attracts attention. Stargirl isn't exactly normal, She dresses like shes from the olden days, She carries a ukelele and plays it in the lunch room, especially if its someones birthday, and she carries a pet rat on her shoulder at school. A lot of people at mica high think Stargirl is a act, looking for attention, or is a Alien. Stargirl actually seems to start a trend, people are buying rats and playing ukeleles, but some people still seem to not like her and despise her for her differences. Suddnely people shun her for everything that makes her different, except for Leo. Leo begs Stargirl to start acting "normal" so the school will stop shunning her, Stargirl finally agrees to try being normal, but it doesn't work out. At the schools last dance a mean girl slaps Stargirl but Stargirl just kisses her on the cheek in return, then she leaves the dance with a smile on her face and moves away. Three years later after Leo goes to college and is all grown up, on his birthday he recieves a porcipine nectie in the mail.

           I thought the theme of this book is to embrace your imperfections, weirdness,and differences. Like when Stargirl started the trend, other people weren't afraid to embrace their differences. You should inspire people to be different. Another example is when Stargirl wasn't afraid to sing in front of everyone in the lunch room. The theme of this book is defaintly to embrace your weirdness.



         I would reccomend this book to anyone in our grade. It had really good, true quotes. I really liked it because it was so intresting and had really good details. A lot of my friends read Stargirl and  liked it. So yes I would reccomend Stargirl to anyone because it had good quotes, it had really good details, and because it was really unique.



              Jerry Spinelli has written a ton of popular books. Like Stargirl, Do the funky pickle, Crash, Fourth Grade rats, Eggs, Jake and Jilly, Jason and Marceline, Knots in my yo-yo string, Loser, Maniac Magee, Milkweed, Picklemania, Report to the principals office, Smiles to go, Space station to seventh grade, The bath water gang, The library card, Third grade angels, Jerry Spinelli was born in pennsylvania.




 I got my picture from http://missrabel.blogspot.com/2010/10/stargirl-part-1.html

Dialogue story

                                                

                                                                      

           I was twelve years old and at jumprope practice. I was inside the gym at Keet and it smelled like glue and tennis shoes. I was getting tired and my feet were starting to hurt. I went over to a glass door and looked out at the hallway, it was covered with art projects, poems, pictures, and ribbons. I kind of missed being at Keet. I turned back around to look at the gym. The gym's floor was made rubber cement and smelled bad. I glanced over at my coach.
          "Sophie, show me what you've practiced so far" said coach Kev
          "Ok" I answered meekly.
I started doing the tricks I practiced. I kept messing up on one trick because my feet hurt. Miss Kev looked at me and said,
           "Sophie, what's going on?, lets go in the hallway"
I felt frustrated.
Once we were out in the hallway we just stood there in silence until Kev spoke up.
            "So whats up?, whats wrong?"
            "My feet really hurt" I replied
            "Oh, did you tell anyone they were hurting?" Kev asked.
            "No" I admitted
            "Sophie you need to tell me when your feet hurt" Kev said.
            "I know, I know, I'm just afraid I might dissapoint people with my "excuses" I said with a annoyed tone.
            "Sophie, your not going to dissapoint people because your in pain, you shouldn't be afraid to tell people things, ok?" Kev said putting a hand on my shoulder.
             "Ok" I replied.
I went back into the gym and just sat on the bleachers. I had a feeling I wouldn't be jumping for the day.
My other coach said I should just watch for the day, and I did. That day I learned  that I shouldn't be afraid to tell anybody anything.

Leaving Protection:book review #3

                        Leaving Protection     

           The book I read was Leaving Protection by Will Hobbs. This book is about a 16 year old boy named Robbie who leaves his home and family at Port Protection, flies to Craig by float plane to find a summer fishing job. In Craig a girl named Julie shows Robbie around and suggests a fisherman who owns a boat called the Storm Petrel. Robbie goes to wait around for the Storm Petrel captain but he is not aboard, then curiosity takes over and Robbie decides to climb aboard and look around.  The Storm Petrel's captain (Tor Torsen) returns to find Robbie snooping around and tells him to get off his boat. Robbie thinks he has blown all chances of getting a job on the Petrel, but later that night the Storm Petrel's captain says he can come and work on his boat.  Robbie learns that the Tor has been hunting and finding old and valuable Russian plaques left from the Russian explorers.  After a few days on the boat, Robbie begins to worry that Tor might do something to him since he has found out about the Russian plaques. A powerful storm rolls in and challenges Robbie’s survival skills after Tor falls overboard trying to tie a broken trolling pole. Tor tells Robbie to gaff him in the shoulder and heave him aboard, Robbie tries and tries but finally Tor tells him to let go.  Once Robbie gets back home he tells people the news and Tor's daughter, Grace, Grace decides that Robbie's family should have the boat, Tor would've wanted them to.

        I thought the theme of this book is make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into. One example is Robbie climbed aboard a boat with no permission and got in trouble. Another one is Robbie went fishing with a man he didn't know and could've been dangerous, which he was. Robbie was put in danger when he found out about the antique Russian plaques that Tor didn't want him to know about. So you should always make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into.

              
        This book reminds me a lot about our own town because it involves a lot of fishing, which our town is all about. This book was very realistic and had accurate details about fishing, the ocean, and the weather. I think  fishermen would really like this book because it has so much about fishing. It had a lot about the Alaskan history of Sitka and many other places. I would recommend this book to anyone in any grade.

I got this picture from http://musiceatsworldd.blogspot.com/2010/10/book-review-leaving-protection.html