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Marcelo in the real world

Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

Main Author: Stork, Francisco X.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Autism > Young adult fiction.
Asperger's syndrome > Young adult fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Young adult fiction.
Summary: Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Physical Description: 312 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780545054744 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0545054745 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author Notes: Francisco X. Stork is the author of Marcelo in the Real World , winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens and the Once Upon a World Award; The Last Summer of the Death Warriors , which was named to the YALSA Best Fiction for Teens list and won the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award; Irises ; The Memory of Light , which received four starred reviews; and Disappeared , which also received four starred reviews and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. He lives near Boston with his wife. You can find him on the web at franciscostork.com and @StorkFrancisco.

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