308 pages
English language
Published 1999 by Penguin Books.
Icy Sparks
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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.
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.
Subjects
- Tourette syndrome -- Patients -- Fiction.
- Grandparents as parents -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- Girls -- Fiction.
- Kentucky -- Fiction.