A review by meghan111
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

4.0

This book follows Marcelo, who has something like Asperger's, through the summer before his senior year of high school. Marcelo hears music in his head, refers to himself in the third person, and lives in a treehouse. He has always gone to a special school, where he is allowed to learn at his own pace and to spend lots of time tending the school's horses. Now, his father demands that he spend the summer helping at his father's law office, or he will have to go to a regular high school in the fall. Marcelo reluctantly accepts the deal, and the book follows him over the course of the summer.