One of the most acclaimed YA novels of 2009, now in paperback! Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear-part of an autism-like condition no doctor has been able to fully identify. But his father has never believed in the music or Marcelo's differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in 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, 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. | Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork, Paperback | Indigo Chapters