Dootsie is outgoing and chats to anyone that comes her way. Dootsie Pringle is a spunky six-year-old that is quick to befriend Stargirl after discovering her meditating on a table.Leo broke Stargirl's heart, but she still loves him, only finalizing her choice between Leo and Perry when she shares a kiss with Perry at Calendar Hill, but says later she didn't think they were right for each other. During the time of this novel, she is writing the world's longest letter to Leo, documenting her days and adventures with her new friends and difficulties in her new town.
With the arrival of autumn, Stargirl's life is affected as she meets several new characters: Alvina, a grumpy young girl who delivers donuts to Betty Lou Perry, a teen boy who Alvina is falling in love with and Perry's "harem," The Honeybees.Īs winter sets in, Stargirl plans a Winter Solstice party, inviting all of the people she has encountered in her new town to celebrate the beginning of winter by joining her at sunrise on her Enchanted Hill, which she now calls Calendar Hill. They also share a very nice time watching flowers together. She is quite nice and Stargirl soon becomes friends with her as well. She befriends Dootsie, a noisy but lovable 6-year-old who takes a shine to Stargirl and wants to switch.ĭootsie introduces her to Betty Lou, an agoraphobic elderly woman. New in town, homeschooled, and feeling rejected by Leo, the 16-year-old narrator of the first book who had fallen under her spell, she is lonely and sad-her "happy wagon," where she keeps stones representing her level of happiness, is almost empty.