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Dancing Carl

In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a strange dance that is both beautiful and disturbing to watch.

It is Marsh and Willy who discover the terrible secret behind Carl's dance, a secret that threatens to destroy him. But a small miracle occurs, and Carl's dance becomes a fragile and tentative expression of hope and the healing power of love.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 112
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781416939382
  • Settings
  • Minnesota
  • Genres
  • fiction, teen, childrens
  • Release date
  • 2007