Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Oh for sobbing out loud, Oprah!

When I'm reading a book and the number of pages yet unturned is getting alarmingly thin, I expect to have some hope of liking the main character. Or at least having some sympathy. It didn't happen here, which is odd, because in the beginning of the book, I did like Icy Sparks. It seems acceptable to me for a ten year old kid to be a bit self-centered and bratty. But at some point in a novel about growing up with a handicap, I expect the growing up part to actually happen.This is what I call a "coming to the realization" novel. The main character is exactly as obtuse when the action ends as she was when it began. Then the final ten pages or so sum up what she learned, and why she is now a fully functioning person. I found it annoying and preachy.To quote the redoubtable Dorothy Parker: "This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be flung with great force."