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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stork, Francisco X.
Marcelo in the real world / Francisco X. Stork.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
ISBN 978-0-545-05474-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) [1. Autism—Fiction. 2. Asperger’s syndrome—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal relations—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S88442Mar 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008014729
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First edition, March 2009
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