So happy to have started the new year with this lovely treasure. Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork, is a mesmerizing view into the life of a boy with Asperger's Syndrome. Although this is fiction, the character was so real and honest that I just wanted to invite him over for a chat.
Marcelo is about to begin his senior year of high school when his father announces that he needs to spend some time in the "real world". The real world being his law office for the summer. The only thing I knew about Asperger's before reading this book was the sterotypical, theatrical, make em laugh stuff you see on t.v. (Boston Legal anyone?) Marcelo is a boy that hears music no one else can. He refers to himself in the third person and is just trying to understand the very confusing and scary world around him. Fortunately, he meets Jasmine who takes him under her wing. Unfortunately he meets Wendell who we know right off the bat is one of those pretty boy troublemakers. (Girls we can smell em coming a mile a way can't we?)
Will Marcelo make it in the real world? Find out for yourselves friends. This is an absolutely delicious book. Take a bite. Until next time.
1 comments:
Loved this book! The writing was so beautiful, Marcelo was so awesome, Wendell was such a jerk and Jasmine was so lovably flawed. I was hoping this book would win the Printz Award =/ But I've heard nothing but great things about Going Bovine so..
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