Last week, I finished Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. This is one of those YA novels that I wonder whether teachers love it and kids hate it. Because I adored it. I finished it while I was supervising an art class that didn’t really require my supervision. It was all I could do to hold back my big, huge, ugly tears…I kept it to a few discreet ones that I was able to wipe away quickly. This is a book that I would like to own and reread over and over again.

The message, quite simply, is that one person really can change the world…or at least her little part of it.

*sob*