by Jennifer
Posted on October 13, 2008 at 10:05 am

Reminds me of what in film has been dubbed a manic pixie dream girl.

by Amy
Posted on October 13, 2008 at 5:38 pm

So true, Jennifer. The “manic pixie dream girl” is a pretty common trope in YA and intermediate lit., too. Her featured appearance in Jerry Spinelli’s “Star Girl” is the primary reason I hated that book.

by Jennifer
Posted on December 11, 2008 at 10:40 pm

I didn’t mind it in that book because I felt like by the end it had come around to be an examination of the tendency of men and boys to put women on that weird pedestal of otherness.