Marcelo in the Real World

Name: Marcelo in the Real World
ISBN: 9780545054744

by Francisco X. Stork

Schneider Family · 2010 · Winner

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Arthur A. Levine BooksMarch 1, 2009Young AdultISBN 9780545054744

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Schneider Family Book Award	2010	Winner	“Teen category winner”

About This Book

Marcelo Sandoval has a condition similar to Asperger's syndrome that gives him an unusual perspective on the world. When his father insists he work in his law firm for a summer, Marcelo encounters injustice, moral complexity, and unexpected love. Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens 2010.

About the Author

Francisco X. StorkMexican-American

Francisco X. Stork (born 1953 in Monterrey, Mexico) is a Mexican-American author of young adult realistic fiction, best known for Marcelo in the Real World (2009), winner of the Schneider Family Book Award, and other acclaimed novels like The Memory of Light (2016) and Disappeared (2017), a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book. Born to a single mother and adopted by Charles Stork, he immigrated to the U.S. Read more →