Icy Sparks / Gwyn Hyman Rubio.
The eponymous heroine of Gwyn Rubio's Icy Sparks is only 10 years old the first time it happens. The sudden itching, the pressure squeezing her skull, and the "little invisible rubber bands" attached to her eyelids are all symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. At this point, of course, Icy doesn't yet have a name for these unsettling impulses. But whenever they become too much to resist, she runs down to her grandparents' root cellar, and there she gives in, croaking, jerking, cursing, and popping her eyes. Nicknamed the "frog child" by her classmates, Icy soon becomes "a little girl who had to keep all of her compulsions inside." Only a brief confinement at the Bluegrass State Hospital persuades her that there are actually children more "different" than she. By the time the epilogue rolls around, Icy has prevailed over her disorder and become a therapist: "Children silent as stone sing for me. Children who cannot speak create music for me."
Record details
- ISBN: 067087311X
- ISBN: 9780670873111
- ISBN: 0739417665
- ISBN: 9780739417669
- ISBN: 0142000205
- ISBN: 9780142000205
- Physical Description: x, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1998.
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| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.7 15 56903. |
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| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Fiction. |
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- 29 of 29 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Mars Hill Library | FIC RUB (Text) | 30229100323624 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
