Icy Sparks
By: Gwyn Hyman Rubio.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Tourette syndrome -- Patients -- Fiction.; Grandparents as parents -- Fiction.; Mountain life -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Girls -- Fiction.; Appalachian Region -- Fiction.; Kentucky -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Eastern Kentucky, 1956. Life is hard and sweet for ten-year-old Icy Sparks.

Try as she might, her secrets - those croaks, jerks, and spasms - keep slipping out. Her teachers think she's willful, her friends call her "the Frog Child." Exiled from the schoolroom, she spends time in a children's asylum, where she learns about being different and teaches her doctors even more. Yet it is not until Icy returns home that she truly begins to flower, through her friendship with the eccentric and obese Miss Emily.

Under Miss Emily's tutelage, Icy takes her first steps back into the world, including her first hilarious and heartbreaking misadventures with romance.