Betty Lou gifts them with delicious treats, like Margie's donuts. She never leaves her house, and Stargirl and Dootsie come to visit her almost everyday. Betty Lou Fern is the agoraphobic middle-aged neighbor of Stargirl and Dootsie.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 her solstice, 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. Leo Borlock is Stargirl's former love interest from Mica, Arizona.She also befriends Betty Lou Fern, an older agoraphobic neighbor of hers, mostly because Betty Lou gifts Dootsie with yummy homemade treats and donuts.
She is attention-seeking, often running away, or pretending to be invisible, thinking it will attract attention, seeing as everyone pretends they can't see her. Doostie is outgoing, and chats to anyone that comes her way.
He is seen to be a delinquent, telling people he went to boot camp for a year, when he was actually staying with his aunt. Perry Delloplane is a juvenile boy about Stargirl's age.However, throughout the book she struggles with her feelings, trying to understand how she's feeling and who her heart belongs to Leo or Perry. Her love interest is Perry Deloplane, though he sends her mixed messages, going so far as to invite her to join his harem. Her best friend is Dootsie, a spunky five year old that also has no boundaries.for anything. She has many quirky acts that she not-so-subtly pulls off throughout the book, like dropping pennies on the sidewalk, starting a gardening business, meditating, befriending little girls, and going on milk runs with her father, a milkman. She would go to the ends of the earth to achieve happiness, for not herself, but others. Susan "Stargirl" Caraway is a unique teenager that has no boundaries when it comes to clothing or acts of kindness.