Dancing Carl by Paulsen, Gary

Recommended for Grades 4 and 5

(Page last edited 10/09/2017)

• Title: Dancing Carl
• Author: Paulsen, Gary
• ISBN: 1416939385
• ISBN 13: 978-1416939382

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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.

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