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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/26/2007
ISBN: 9781416939382
Pages: 105
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 7.63h x 5.20w x 0.33d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 754 / Dancing Carl
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 3