Stargirl
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Porcupine Necktie Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 More Than Stars
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All Themes Individuality and Conformity Human Nature Seeing, Visibility, and Invisibility Friendship, Love, and Social Pressure
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All Characters Leo Borlock Stargirl/Susan Caraway Archie Brubaker Kevin Quinlan Hillari Kimble Wayne Parr Dori Dilson
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Stargirl

by

Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl Symbols

The Desert

The desert symbolizes individual beauty emerging from conformity, and—related to that—the magic that can be seen in everyday things, when someone knows how to look. For example, Leo describes the Sonoran mud frogs in the…

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