Prestige the Stickman: The Starquel

Prestige the Stickman: The Starquel is a 2007 young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli.

The book is the squeakquel to the New York Times bestselling book, Prestige the Stickman, It picks up where the previous novel left off after Stargirl left Mica High and describes her bittersweet memories in the town of Mica, Arizona along with the involvements of new people in her life in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Along the way she is accompanied by Prestige.

The film is a 2022 American musical romantic comedy film. Kurt Scholler stars as the title character once again.

Plot
Seven months after the events of the previous film, Prestige, who is now an internationally renowned TV star, lives in his own mansion in Grubtopia. His shows are well praised and loved by even the more mature teens.

Prestige locates Stargirl, the 16-year-old narrator of the first book who had fallen under her spell, he learns that she is lonely and sad—her "happy wagon," where she keeps stones representing her level of happiness, is almost empty. She befriends Dootsie, a noisy but lovable 6-year-old who takes a shine to Stargirl and wants to switch.

Seeking a way to have fun, Prestige takes his flying ship to Phoeniville and returns to Stargirl.

Dootsie introduces the two to Betty Lou, an agoraphobic elderly woman. She is quite nice and Stargirl soon becomes friends with her as well. They also share a very nice time watching flowers together.

With the arrival of autumn, Stargirl's life is affected as she meets several new characters: Gautham, a thirteen year old who is an aspiring rodeo clown, Alvina, chipmunk Alvin Seville's grumpy young female gender-bend; Perry, a teen boy who Alvina is falling in love with; and Perry's "harem," The Honeybees.

As 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. Stargirl also discovers the truth about Perry, who has been very mysterious about his family and personal life. She learns his mother has a new baby, whom Perry has been trying to support by working several jobs and by resorting to "stealing" to avoid burdening her with feeding him. In the end, Stargirl becomes worried that no one will show up for her solstice party, but is reassured by Archie, her former teacher, and friend from Arizona, who arrives to attend her celebration and comforts her with his wisdom.

On the morning of the Winter Solstice, Trollman and Rager arrive on their sleigh, and Stargirl is overwhelmed and surprised when a huge crowd of her friends and acquaintances, and several other people she's unfamiliar with, flock to Calendar Hill, including her friend Betty Lou who hasn't left her house in nine years. The magic moment of sunrise is magnified by a special tent her parents have built, allowing the sunlight to stream in through a hole in the tent, forming a single beam that cuts through the crowd of people and pierces the back wall. Everyone is profoundly affected by the start of this new day and returns home to the start of a cold winter.

In the end after Prestige leaves, Stargirl asks Archie what she should do about missing Leo, and about Perry. He tells her to remember who she is and do what her heart tells her.

Back at home, Prestige performs stand up comedy about his adventures.

Characters

 * Prestige The Stickman is a huge black stick figure who is a world renowned children’s entertainer, he is Mica’s former school mascot who was once a statue, he now has the ability to blend in with walls. Not much else has changed, his part has him going around the location of the main story where he is drafted, and he is best friends with Sollux the Lazer Eyed Grub.


 * Sollux Captor is Trollman and Rage Comic’s Lead Grub, he befriended Prestige back in June 2001, and is the main protagonist of the Dominant Grub franchise, he has his own origin story of popularity “Sollux The Lazer Eyed Grub”, he wasn’t supposed to be on the sleigh team but he joined to save the first flight of Trollman and Rage Comic, his managers.


 * Trollman and Rage Com are two friends who manage Sollux and his sleigh team, they both don’t like the thought of period problems, so they fly around the world and smuggle period supplies into houses as efforts to tackle menstrual poverty.


 * Sollux’s fellow team members are:
 * Mituna Captor, Sollux's older brother
 * Eridan Ampora, Sollux's older brother
 * Kankri Vantas, One of Sollux's teammates and Karkat's older brother
 * Tarvos Nitram Sollux's gangster friend with yellow horns
 * Karkat Vantas One of Sollux's friends and Kankri's younger brother
 * Equius Zaahak A friend of Sollux
 * Cronus Ampora Eridan's older brother
 * Kurloz Makara A friend of Sollux


 * Aradia Medigo is Sollux’s main love interest who is mentioned to have met Prestige before, she is seen during many of Prestige’s shows and appears with Stargirl, due to Sollux and the team being busy.


 * Susan Julia "Stargirl" Caraway is a powerful, starry, unique teenager that has no boundaries when it comes to clothing or acts of kindness. She would go to the ends of the earth to achieve happiness, not for herself, but others. 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. Her best friend is Dootsie, a spunky six-year-old that also has no boundaries... for anything. Her love interest is Perry Delloplane, though he sends her mixed messages, going so far as to invite her to join his harem. However, throughout the book she struggles with her feelings, trying to understand how she's feeling and whether her heart belongs to Leo or Perry.


 * Leo Borlock is Stargirl's former love interest from Mica, Arizona. 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 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. He is mentioned many times in the book.


 * Dootsie Pringle is a spunky six-year-old that is quick to befriend Stargirl after discovering her meditating on a table. Dootsie is outgoing and chats to anyone that comes her way. 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. She also befriends Betty Lou Fern, an older agoraphobic neighbor of hers, mostly because of Betty Lou gifts Dootsie with yummy homemade treats and donuts.


 * Perry Delloplane is a juvenile boy about Stargirl's age. 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. His mother is pregnant, and when his little sister is born, he shows a surprisingly caring, gentle side, and is extremely protective. He has an affection for Dootsie. He likes to joke around with her, and she as well is quite smitten with him, even joining his harem, he also explains the JaTB CD to Karkat.


 * The Honeybees are Perry's harem, a club of open admirers who all fancy him. He feels no shame in kissing them in public, often in front of other harem members, who don't mind, and going on dates with them, but never seriously.


 * Betty Lou Fern is the agoraphobic middle-aged neighbor of Stargirl and Dootsie. She never leaves her house, and Stargirl and Dootsie come to visit her almost everyday. Betty Lou gifts them with delicious treats, like Margie's donuts. Betty Lou has a soft spot for mockingbirds and flowers but was forced to give up their beauty after her fear becomes worse. Betty Lou always has great advice for Stargirl on her romance indecision, and almost stands in place for Archie. She had a husband, whom she nicknamed "Mr. Potato Nose"


 * Gautham Anantharyan is always setting traps up, he has pulled a couple successful pranks on the school and has never been busted despite being suspected before. Prestige sees the rodeo clown as a bad influence at first when he catches him setting one up and when he sees the sleigh team fly into a net on accident. Gautham tries to prove he can be good around the mascot, the two first meet at the CD sale, in the end, Prestige accepts Gautham for his humorous acts.


 * Alvina Klecko is a very unsociable tween going through a transformation between her tomboyish ways and her dolls. She tends to have a very confrontational demeanor, often pretending to ignore Stargirl's preachings, but listens and almost always heeds them in the end. She delivers Betty Lou's Donuts, even after she was fired from Margie's. Alvina is also shown to have a little crush on Perry Delloplane, and a blond boy from her school. (Running gag: Prestige holding a flag that says.


 * Margie is the owner of a doughnut shop in the town Stargirl moves to. Her donuts are famous in town. She is most famous for her crazy doughnut inventions, like donut pie and donut soup. She is also very talkative, chatting to anyone that comes through the door, taking a particular liking to


 * Charlie is an old man who sits in the cemetery every day by his wife's grave, supposedly listening and talking to her. Stargirl first approached him by leaving donuts for him, which took a few tries, then eventually brought Dootsie along with her. This action made them friends, and Dootsie and Stargirl often go down to visit them, Stargirl mostly questioning about Grace, his deceased wife and himself.


 * The Huffelmeyers are an old couple that Stargirl's father delivers milk to. She recognizes them for their old-fashioned ways.


 * Cinnamon is Stargirl's pet rat. He is lost after Stargirl puts him in a mailbox during a fire, however, Arnold later finds him and later returns him to Stargirl.


 * Arnold is known to constantly wander around asking, "Are you looking for me?" After returning Cinnamon, he gets a pet rat of his own.

Cast

 * Kurt Scholler as Prestige the Stickman
 * Grace VanderWaal as Susan "Stargirl" Caraway
 * Sara Arrington as Ana Caraway
 * Steve Buscemi as Bernard Caraway
 * Jesse Choy as Perry Dellophane
 * Istyiak Ahmed as Gautham
 * Noah Schnapp as Sollux
 * TBA as Aradia
 * Justin Long as Trollman
 * Seth MacFarlane as Rage Comic
 * Freddie Highmore as Mituna
 * Owen Vacaro as Eridan
 * Logan Lerman as Kankri
 * Thomas Barbusca as Tarvos
 * Chandler Canterbury as Karkat
 * Phillip Daniel Bolden as Equius
 * Milo Parker as Cronus
 * Pierce Gangon as Kurloz