Robin's review
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
** spoiler alert **
A story about Icy Sparks. She is a girl with golden yellow hair, raised in the 1950s, and an orphan child brought up by her grandparents (her mother and father died not too long after she was born). Icy suffers from tourettes (which she doesn't find out until later in life) and has fits of croaks, curses, and arm flailings. She befriends Miss Emily (an older woman and an outcast who weighs over 300 pounds) to find a common bond.
Icy's 4th grade year is miserable because of a teacher who constantly picks on her and unrellenting peers. Her behavior isolates her from other students at school with urges that cannot be controlled. Mr Wooten (her principal) puts her in a classroom alone, separating her from the rest of her class. After a fit of rage when Mr Wooten tries to rearrage the classroom after Icy catagorizes items by colors, she is sent to an institution for help.
In the institution she doesn't fit in and isn't like other patients. Some of the nurses befriend her and she find...more
Icy's 4th grade year is miserable because of a teacher who constantly picks on her and unrellenting peers. Her behavior isolates her from other students at school with urges that cannot be controlled. Mr Wooten (her principal) puts her in a classroom alone, separating her from the rest of her class. After a fit of rage when Mr Wooten tries to rearrage the classroom after Icy catagorizes items by colors, she is sent to an institution for help.
In the institution she doesn't fit in and isn't like other patients. Some of the nurses befriend her and she find...more
