Friday, April 08, 2011

Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

Recommended by Jen R.
YA Stork

Marcelo Sandoval is 17-years-old with a non-classified, highly-functioning Autism-Spectrum disorder who spent a comfortable life so far sleeping in his backyard tree house and attending private schools. His father, a corporate attorney, coerses Marcelo to spend the summer working in the mailroom at his firm, in hopes that Marcelo will learn the ways of the "real world". When Marcelo finds a disturbing photo, he sets out on a personal journey to right the wrongs he experiences through the subtleties of life in the "real world".

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