Marcelo Sandoval has autism and has always attended a special school, an idyllic, protected place. But the summer before high school, his father demands that Marcelo works in his law firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world". There Marcelo meets Jasmine, beautiful and surprising, and Wendell, the self-satisfied son of another partner in the firm. He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture that he finds in a file - a picture of a girl with a terrible injury - that truly connects him to the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and his place in it.
- ISBN10 1407121006
- ISBN13 9781407121000
- Publish Date 6 June 2011 (first published 10 March 2009)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 March 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Scholastic
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English