Dancing Carl Author:Gary Paulsen Sometimes one extraordinary person can change your life forever. In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grownups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, in the year Marsh and his best friend Willy are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered old leather flight jacket and d... more »ancing 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 of the healing power of love.« less