Will Stone may well be the worst hockey player ever to take the ice, but from the moment he's roped into taking a ballroom-dancing lesson, he knows he's got a gift. But what will his former NHL-star dad say when he finds out? Not to mention his caustic, scornful grandpa and the vicious tormentors who have made life at school a living hell? Except for the relentless bullying, Irwin delivers her debut's events in a light tone, endowing her resilient but conflicted 13-year-old with comically painful adolescent issues. She also provides unexpected allies in dance partner Tessa ("majestically hot") and a newly arrived live-in cousin with parental issues of his own, both high-schoolers. The author sets up climactic tests of will that will leave readers with two inspiring examples of sons strong enough to chase their own dreams rather than those of their parents, at least one dad who is willing to learn from his mistakes, and a protagonist with a new outlook on a sport he used to hate. That's some fancy footwork.