# Marcelo in the Real World

**Author:** Francisco X. Stork
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2011
**Page count:** 256
**ISBN-13:** `9781407131313`
**ISBN-10:** `1407131311`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/marcelo-in-the-real-world
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Marcelo is not ill. He is different. But he lives in a world that struggles to understand him. He's spent his childhood at an exclusive school, but now Marcelo is seventeen - and his father is forcing him to spend a summer interning at the family law firm. He must learn the rules of the real world.

## Where this book is assigned

### Schneider Family Book Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2010 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2010 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2010 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2010 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)

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