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"**Hot Seat"-**The basketball season is the best in the school’s history and school spirit flourishes. Students begin to resent Stargirl’s habit of cheering for both teams. Their anger comes to a head during a filming of the student-run television show //Hot Seat//, run by Leo and his best friend Kevin.
 * Porqupine-**Before the move, his uncle Pete gives Leo a porcupine necktie as a farewell present, inspiring him to collect more like it.
 * Flowers-**During each class period she decorates her desk with a tablecloth and flowers. She dances in the rain, and strums a ukulele every day during lunch while singing "Happy Birthday" to kids she has never met.
 * Ocotillo Ball-**Stargirl attends the school’s dance—the Ocotillo ball—with her friend Dori. Leo watches from a distance as Stargirl arrives at the dance on a bike covered in sunflowers.
 * Kevin-**susan's friend
 * Teams-**their are many teams that are competetive during this book, ex: "hot seat"
 * Ukalele-**She dances in the rain, and strums a ukulele every day during lunch
 * Basketball**-one of the competive teams throughout the book is a basketball team by Kevin and Leo.
 * Pensylvannia-**Leo at the age of twelve, move from his home state of Pennsylvania to Arizona.**Hilliari-** one of Stargirls friends, an important character in the book