Icy Sparks
By: Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York (N.Y.) ... [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780142000205
Subjects: Tourette syndrome -- Patients -- Fiction.; Grandparents as parents -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Girls -- Fiction.; Kentucky -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.