Marcelo in the Real World

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Product Details
Price
$12.99  $12.08
Publisher
Scholastic Paperbacks
Publish Date
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.37 X 7.97 X 0.66 inches | 0.57 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780545056908

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About the Author
Francisco X. Stork (he/him) emigrated from Mexico at the age of nine with his mother and his adoptive father. I Am Not Alone is his tenth novel. Other novels include: Marcelo in the Real World, recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, which received the Elizabeth Walden Award, The Memory of Light, recipient of the Tomas Rivera Award, Disappeared, which received the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and was a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book and Illegal, recipient of the In the Margins Award, the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the International Latino Book Award. On the Hook published in 2021, received four starred reviews and was the recipient of the International Latino Book Award.
Reviews
"Stork introduces ethical dilemmas, the possibility of love, and other "real world" conflicts, all the while preserving the integrity of his characterizations and intensifying the novel's psychological and emotional stakes. Not to be missed." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"...Stork delivers a powerful tale populated by appealing (and decidedly unappealing) characters and rich in emotional nuance." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Writing in a first-person narrative, Stork does an amazing job of entering Marcelo's consciousness and presenting him as a dynamic, sympathetic, and wholly believable character." -- School Library Journal, starred review"It is the rare novel that reaffirms a belief in goodness; rarer still is one that does so this emphatically." -- Horn Book, starred review"Shot with spirtualism, laced with love, and fraught with conundrums, this book, like Marcelo himself, surprises." -- Booklist, starred review"[I]n the skillful hands of Francisco X. Stork, 17-year-old Marcelo Sandoval is the bravest, most original hero I've met in years...[A] brisk, brilliant, unsentimental novel..." -- New York Times"Part coming-of-age story, part mystery and wholly compelling..." -- Washington Post"While several recent books have used the conceit of an autistic protagonist, this thoughtful novel full of complicated characters is unique." -- Chicago Sun-Times"Stork has written a beautiful study of the loss of innocence, as the questions Marcelo confronts are ones everyone has to grapple with in some form or other..." -- Los Angeles Times