DANCING ON THE EDGE

National Book Award WINNER

Miracle McCloy has always known that there is something different about her: She was pulled from the womb of a dead woman a "miracle" birth and Gigi, her clairvoyant grandmother, expects Miracle to be a prodigy, much like Dane, the girl's brooding novelist father.

Having been raised according to a set of mystical rules and beliefs, Miracle is unable to cope in the real world. Lost in a
desperate dance among lit candles, Miracle sets herself afire and is hospitalized. There Dr. DeAngelis, a young psychiatrist, helps her through her painful struggle to take charge of her life.


Han Nolan is a National Book Award winner and three time winner of the Alabama Library Association Author. She is the author of nine outstanding young adult novels. She is working on a new teen novel about grief and lives with her family in Virginia