Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli

​Star Girl made me think about how as a society we love to build people up and then relish tearing them down. Spinelli has a gift for allowing his readers to experience lives/attitudes/opinions from both sides of an issue. Even though this is told in first person through the eyes of a boy who has a crush on Star Girl, we are privy to all the character’s trajectories. I love that empathy building!