This book is about how Stargirl, a new transfer to Mica High, gets along with the people at her high school. Stargirl is a tenth grader that wore “an off-white dress so long it covered her shoes,” the author said. “It had ruffles around the neck and cuffs and looked like it could have been her great-grandmother’s wedding gown.” Now that pretty much gives us an insight to what kind of person Stargirl is. People were staring at her as she walked in, and only half of the cafeteria started buzzing after she started to eat, which as we know from personal experience, is not common in middle and high school. Leo, the narrator of this book, tells us about Stargirl and the impact that she brought to Mica High. As he was describing her, we can’t help but notice that he had fallen quite hopelessly in love with Stargirl, and that Stargirl had also fallen in love with him. Given the plot so far, I would immediately assume that this is another one of those oh-so-cliché stories that tells us about high-school drama and romance. But here the author leads us into a world of hard choices and then regret. What I liked most about this book is that I can relate to most of the characters and how they react to certain things. A most obvious example would be Leo, who chose fitting in with others over loving Stargirl, which was not the most heroic of actions, but - as hard as it is for us to admit - is how most of us would have acted if we were in his shoes.