{"product_id":"marcelo-in-the-real-world-9780545056908","title":"Marcelo in the Real World","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe paperback edition of one of the most acclaimed novels of the year -- a love story \u0026amp; legal drama that received five starred reviews and multiple honors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe term \"cognitive disorder\" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others.Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear -- part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo's differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer . . . to join \"the real world.\"There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm. He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture he finds in a file a picture of a girl with half a face that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco X. Stork (he\/him) emigrated from Mexico at the age of nine with his mother and his adoptive father. \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Alone\u003c\/i\u003e is his tenth novel. Other novels include: \u003ci\u003eMarcelo in the Real World\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of the Death Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Elizabeth Walden Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of the Tomás Rivera Award, \u003ci\u003e Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and was a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book and \u003ci\u003eIllegal\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of the In the Margins Award, the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the International Latino Book Award. \u003ci\u003eOn the Hook\u003c\/i\u003e published in 2021, received four starred reviews and was the recipient of the International Latino Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scholastic Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630330253586,"sku":"9780545056908","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cdfb3bfb-9ad9-4a86-bf5a-dad87c544c36.jpg?v=1732749840","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marcelo-in-the-real-world-9780545056908","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}