She learns his mother has a new baby, whom Perry has been trying to support by working several jobs and by resorting to "stealing" to avoid burdening her with feeding him. He has been very mysterious about his family and personal life. Stargirl also discovers the truth about Perry. With the arrival of autumn, Stargirl's life is affected as she meets several new characters: Alvina, a grumpy young girl who delivers donuts to Betty Lou Perry, a teen boy who Alvina is falling in love with and Perry's harem, The Honeybees.Īs winter sets in, Stargirl turns herself to planning a Winter Solstice party, inviting all of the people she has encountered in her new town to celebrate the beginning of winter by joining her at sunrise on her Enchanted Hill, which she now calls Calendar Hill. She is quite nice and Stargirl soon becomes friends with her as well. She befriends Dootsie, a noisy but lovable 6-year-old who takes a shine to Stargirl and wants to switch.ĭootsie introduces her to Betty Lou, an agoraphobic elder woman. New in town, homeschooled, and feeling rejected by Leo, the 16-year-old narrator of the first book who had fallen under her spell, she is lonely and sad-her "happy wagon," where she keeps stones representing her level of happiness, is almost empty. Stargirl, living now in Pennsylvania, tells her own story this time, in "the world's longest letter," which is actually a series of journal entries.
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