Dancing carl - Gary Paulsen

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A haunted, battle-scarred man who tends the ice rinks teaches Marsh and his friend Willy something about the horrors of war--and the healing power of love.

ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

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.