The story starts on the first day of school, and everyone is talking about the new girl, Stargirl. She has been home-schooled all her life and, for the first time, is coming to public school. However, she makes an unusual appearance as she comes attired in a long dress and carrying a pet rat named Cinnamon. They realize immediately that she is different! What is most unusual is her kindness to other people. She sings “Happy Birthday” to everyone in the lunchroom and gives candy to people in her homeroom on holidays. People at first think she isn’t real because she acts so nice. But soon everyone begins to like her and follow her around. But everything changes when a classmate named Leo realizes he is in love with Stargirl. Suddenly, Stargirl finds herself being shunned by the other students and treated as a nobody! Desperate to change his first true love, Leo tries to improve Stargirl, but he discovers that it would only hurt him self.
I like this book a lot because it teach me that you should be your self and not try to be something that you are not it because what you are is what you are and you should always be your self. I also learned that you should be how people would think that they would like you to be because star girl was really nice to everyone and everyone really like her and they wanted to be her friend.
