Stargirl

Plot
Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl is a young adult novel published in 2000. The main character, named Stargirl, starts high school in Arizona after being homeschooled her entire life. She is a free spirit with a lot of enthusiasm which is difficult for other students to understand. During a football game she cheers and takes to the field herself, doing such a good job she is offered to join the cheerleading squad and she agrees. However during basketball season the fans turn on her when she sympathizes an injured player on the opposing team along with how she seemed to cheer for both teams. She argues that it would be adding misery to the world if she cheered on their team thrashing the others. She is kicked off the squad and shunned along with her boyfriend Leo. Stargirl tries to change for him but when the shunning continued she went back to her normal self. Afraid of the ostracizing Leo breaks up with her. Later she goes to a school dance without a date. She danced alone at first but asked the bad to play a bunny hop. Soon the other students are caught up in the dance and join in. Stargirl leads the bunny hop line into the desert where they vanished for a long time before returning. After the dance, Stargirl never returned to school. Her family left the state but her spirit remained. Years later at school basketball games, inspired by her, fans cheered the first basket scored by the opposing team.

Effects
Possessor becomes blissfully happy, however they are ostracized by others.