Dancing Carl
Gary Paulsen · 1983
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About the book
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.
Book details
- Year
- 1983
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Aladdin
- Editions
- 9
- Pages
- 105
- ISBN
- 9781416939382
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