Dancing Carl

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Description

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.

First Sentence

In the summer, in McKinley, Minnesota, when you are twelve there is so much to do that almost none of it gets done except fishing.

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Other Editions

• Dancing Carl - 1983 - Bradbury Press, Scarsdale, N.Y, New York (State)
• Dancing Carl - 1987 - Puffin Books, New York, N.Y, New York (State)
• DANCING CARL - 1990 - Scholastic
• Dancing Carl - 1990 - Scholastic Inc., New York, N.Y, New York (State)
• Dancing Carl, Library Binding - 1999-10-01 - Tandem Library
• Dancing Carl, Hardcover - 2001-06-01 - Peter Smith Pub Inc
• Dancing Carl, Paperback - 2007-06-26 - Aladdin
• Dancing Carl, Audio CD - 2012-06-20 - Brilliance Audio
• Dancing Carl, Audio CD - 2012-06-20 - Brilliance Audio