StargirlUnit 1 Questions/Answers

  1. Who is Leo Borlock?

Leo is the narrator of the story.

  1. What was Leo’s going away present from his Uncle Pete?

Leo’s present was a porcupine necktie.

  1. What mysterious gift appeared on Leo’s doorstep on his birthday?

Leo’s mysterious gift was a porcupine necktie.

  1. Who is Kevin?

Kevin is Leo’s friend at school.

  1. Identify Stargirl.

Stargirl is a new girl at Leo’s school. She is quite different from everyone there.

  1. Identify Hot Seat.

Hot Seat is the school TV show produced and directed by Leo with Kevin as the on camera host who interviewed students at the school.

  1. What unusual thing did Stargirl do in the lunchroom on the first day of school?

Stargirl played her ukulele and sang “I’m looking over a four leaf clover that I overlooked before” while twirling and dancing around the tables.

  1. What was Hillari Kimble’s first theory about Stargirl?

Hillary said Stargirl wasn’t real. She thought Stargirl was a plant by the faculty to increase school spirit-Stargirl was a hoax.

  1. List at least at least 3 unusual things Stargirl did in the first weeks of school?
  • She had a sunflower canvas bag with her lunch in it.
  • she played a ukulele and sang at lunch
  • she dressed like Heidi (or Little Bo Peep), wore Indian buckskin, a kimono, and had enamel lady bugs going up her stockings
  • she sang Happy Birthday to the kids at school
  • She made up a song about isosceles triangles and sang it in math class
  • she turned left instead of right in a cross country meet, and never came to the finish line
  • she brought her pet rat to school
  • she danced in the rain at gym class time
  • she laughed when there was no joke
  • she danced when there was no music
  • she made a ‘home’ of her school desks with cloths and the flowers in vase
  1. List 4 rumors going around school about Stargirl?

She lived in a ghost town in the desert.

  1. “We fought daily, Kevin and I.” Why?

Leo was supposed to sign-up Stargirl for Hot Seat, and Leo was then to research her, but Leo was reluctant to sign her up, and Kevin was frustrated.

  1. What did Stargirl leave in the mailbox the day Leo followed her after school?

She left an unsigned congratulations card.

  1. Who is Wayne Parr?

Wayne Parr was a boy at school who did nothing special, but everyone noticed him because of his good looks.

  1. Hillari told Stargirl not to sing Happy Birthday to her, and Stargirl agreed. Did Stargirl keep her promise?

Yes. Instead she didn’t sing to Hillari, she sang to Leo with Hillari’s name at the end of the song.

  1. What was Stargirl’s answer when Kevin asked her “Why Him?”

Stargirlsaid “He’s cute.”