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A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 2010.New York Times Notable Children’s Book of 2009 Washington Post Best Kids’ Books of the Year.Schneider Family Book Award (January 2010) (Awarded by the American Library Association for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences).2010 Once Upon a World Children’s Book Award for Young Adults (Awarded by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance Library and Archives).Reminiscent of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” in the intensity and purity of its voice, this extraordinary novel is a love story, a legal drama, and a celebration of the music each of us hears inside. But it’s a picture he finds in a file - a picture of a girl with half a face - that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight. He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm’s mailroom in order to experience “the real world.” There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm. Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear–part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify–and he’s always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. To read our thoughts on the novel, see our book review. The complete guide is available for download at no cost: Vamos a Leer Educator’s Guide: Marcelo in the Real World. The standards are not included here, but are included with the lesson plans in the PDF. The following information comprises a standards-based educator’s guide that the LAII has produced to support using Marcelo in the Real World (Stork, Scholastic, 2009) in the classroom.
Stork is the selection for the LAII’s Vamos a Leer book group meeting scheduled for November 4, 2013.
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Educator’s Guide: Marcelo in the Real World
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