Questions without Answers

Chapter 1

  1. Where does the story take place?
  2. What grade is Stargirl in?
  3. What instrument does she carry on her back?
  4. What in-school television show did Kevin and Leo want to put her on?

Chapter 2

  1. What did Stargirl sing to Alan during lunch?
  2. Why was Stargirl dismissed from the cross country team?
  3. Why couldn’t the kids at school understand Stargirl?

Chapter 3

  1. What did Stargirl leave in the mailbox when Leo was following her around?
  2. Why did Leo stop following Stargirl?

Chapter 4

  1. Why did Hillari try out for the cheerleading team?
  2. What did Wayne Parr want to be in life?

Chapter 5

  1. What did Stargirl do during half time of the football game that was different?
  2. What did the captain of the cheerleaders ask Stargirl?
  3. Even though students liked Stargirl, why were they afraid of her?

Chapter 6

  1. Why did Hillari warn Stargirl about her birthday?
  2. Who did Stargirl sing to instead?

Chapter 7

  1. Why does Archie have bones everywhere?
  2. Why do kids go over to his home on Saturday’s?
  3. How did Archie know Stargirl?

Chapter 8

  1. What did Hillari threaten to do with Stargirl’s rat?
  2. Why did people start flocking to Stargirl?
  3. What contest did Stargirl win?

Chapter 9

  1. Why did kids start to color their hair purple or paint their nails green?

Chapter 10

  1. What did Stargirl do with the Pledge of Allegiance every morning when they recited it?
  2. Why did Stargirl go to people’s funerals, sing happy birthday to them and give them cards?

Chapter 11

  1. Who did Stargirl cheer for during the basketball games?
  2. Why didn’t bad things affect Stargirl?
  3. Why did the bus leave Stargirl at the Red Rocks high school?

Chapter 12

  1. What’s the name of Stargirl’s rat?
  2. When did Stargirl pretend when she sat in the Hot Seat?

Chapter 13

  1. What’s Stargirl’s real name?
  2. Why does Stargirl change her name?
  3. Why did Stargirl stop homeschooling?
  4. How did the jurors treat Stargirl during the filming of Hot Seat?

Chapter 14

  1. What did Stargirl get hit in the face with during the basketball game?
  2. Who was the note that Leo found in his notebook from?

Chapter 15

  1. How did Leo feel about the card from Stargirl?

Chapter 16

  1. What had the cheerleaders done to Stargirl?
  2. What’s the nickname the girls gave Leo?
  3. When Leo went to Stargirl’s house, where did he hide when she came outside?

Chapter 17

  1. What did Stargirl’s enchanted place look like?
  2. At her enchanted place, what did Stargirl do to help her feel like she was nothing?
  3. What did Leo feel when he felt like nothing?

Chapter 18

  1. Why are the students in the school giving Stargirl the silent treatment?
  2. What does the phrase, “frost froze on the back of my neck” mean?

Chapter 19

  1. Why did Leo want Stargirl to be more like everybody else?
  2. What question did the cactus ask Leo?

Chapter 20

  1. How did Stargirl help Leo be a better person?
  2. Who gave Leo the porcupine tie for his birthday two years before?

Chapter 21

  1. How did Stargirl know what was going on in people’s lives?
  2. What’s the “card game”?
  3. Why does Stargirl leave change around?

Chapter 22

  1. What does Stargirl do with the pebble wagon under her bed?
  2. Why is she taking pictures of the neighbor boy?
  3. Why did Leo ask Stargirl if she were running for “saint”?

Chapter 23

  1. Why was being shunned so hard for Leo?

Chapter 24

  1. What two feelings did Leo feel when he saw the sign made by Stargirl on the Roadrunner board?
  2. How did Leo treat Stargirl after school when she wanted to talk about her sign?
  3. Why did Leo feel like he was invisible?

Chapter 25

  1. Who did Leo want her to become more like?

Chapter 26

  1. What was Leo’s first reaction when he saw Susan?
  2. Why had Stargirl changed her name back to Susan and began acting like everyone else?
  3. How many happiness pebbles were in Stargirl’s wagon after she became Susan?

Chapter 27

  1. Why is Dori mad at Stargirl?
  2. Why did Susan believe she was going to win the contest?

Chapter 28

  1. When had Susan prepared her speech for the contest?

Chapter 29

  1. What was Susan’s prize for winning first place at the contest?
  2. How many people were waiting at the high school for Susan to congratulate her?

Chapter 30

  1. Why was Susan so stunned when no one came to congratulate her?
  2. Who did Susan become after the contest?
  3. How did Leo feel about Stargirl returning?
  4. Was being popular important to Stargirl after she tried to be Susan?

Chapter 31

  1. How does Stargirl arrive to the Ocotillo Ball?
  2. What finally broke the ice and helped people like Stargirl at the dance?
  3. What dance did Stargirl and the other students do all over the golf course?

Chapter 32

  1. Where had Stargirl moved to?
  2. Where was Stargirl’s “office”?

Chapter 33

  1. What did Archie do with Barney the skull?

More Than Stars

  1. Name one way the school remembered Stargirl and her kindness?
  2. Why doesn’t Leo feel like he’s alone even though Stargirl is far away?