num_pages: 112
description: From three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen comes a moving middle grade novel about four strangers fighting for the life they want.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.
language: English
title: Dancing Carl
titlecomplete: Dancing Carl
genres: Fiction, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, War, Audiobook
ratings_count: 306
places: Minnesota
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers