STARGIRL BY JERRY SPINELLI!!!!!

                      The book I read was Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. In this book, the very new small town of Mica, Arizona has a high school that is very normal, not exciting, and boring. No one comes to the school events, or shows any school support. Then everything changes when a girl named Stargirl Caraway comes in, sings Happy Birthday during lunch, plays her Ukelele, cheers for the other team during games, cheers randomly,  asks out-of-the-blue questions to the teachers, and wears the oddest clothes. She changes the school, and Leo Borlock likes her. But Leo needs her to be normal, for him, so his reputation doesn't become destroyed. He needs to choose if he wants the Stargirl he loves over his friends, or lose her.
                       This book connects with an issue in the old world, (If I know my history right) was when the Europeans came the Massachusetts/North America. They found Native Americans there, and categorized them as unusual, just like the students at Mica High categorized Stargirl as unusual. But then the Native Americans started helping the Europeans hunt and assimilate to the land, and they worked side by side as friends, just as Stargirl helped the school become more alive, and the students loved her. But then they started thinking Stargirl was a threat and unloyal to the school because she was supporting and helping other teams, and they finally noticed how odd and out of this world she was.  Just like the Europeans started taking land away from Native Americans because they thought their rituals were weird and unhelpful. Finally, in Stargirl, her boyfriend Leo wants her to be more normal so she can stay popular at Mica High, so she starts wearing normal clothes and calls herself by a normal name, and acts normal now.  The Europeans forced the Native Americans to take on their "European ways." Forced them to convert to christianity, raise and get food like them, so they didn't feel threatened and so they were all the same. I would recommend this to people who are lovers of High School stories, no not a story about high school drama with boys and girls dancing on the beach singing, but one about change and trust, not focused on love but the real main plot is about how this girl turns a dull school into a proud one.