Marcelo in the real world

Marcelo in the real world / Francisco X. Stork; read by Lincoln Hoppe.— New York : Listening Library, p2009.
8 sound discs (10 hr., 8 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
ISBN: 9780739379899

1. Asperger's syndrome -- Fiction. 2. Autism -- Fiction. 3. Boston (Mass.) – Fiction. 4. Interpersonal relations – Fiction. 5. Legal ethics – Fiction. 6. Love stories. 7. Young adult fiction.

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Marcelo Sandoval is not happy. He has been looking forward to his summer job, working in the barn with the ponies at his school. But his father, a partner and principal in a prestigious Boston law firm, wants him to work at the firm for the summer so that he can get experience working in the real world. His father doesn’t think a job in a barn at a school for students with special needs qualifies as the real world. He thinks the school is a protected environment, and Marcelo, at seventeen, a young man on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, needs a more challenging workplace.

The mail room at the law firm is more challenging. Marcelo’s new boss, a young woman named Jasmine, wanted to hire someone else for the job. Wendell, the other partner’s son, wants to befriend Marcelo, but only because he wants to influence the attractive Jasmine to go out on his boat with him. And while organizing the files for the firm’s biggest corporate customer, Marcelo uncovers a very disturbing photograph.

Here's a review by librarian Tasha Saecker.