by Francisco X. Stork. YA Fiction.
Marcelo was a boy who heard music, but nobody else could hear it. He was autistic but his type was never seen before. He lives with his mother and father. His mother pampers him and his father doesn't believe that he really hears this music. His father is ready for him to grow up. He dares Marcelo to work for his company the summer before his senior year. If he can make it the summer, his dad will allow him to go to the private school the next year instead of the public school. He works in the mail room of his dad's law firm and meets a beautiful girl, Jasmine, and Wendell the son of a partner in the firm. Jasmine has no desire to date Wendell and he is constantly bugging her to go out with him. He wants Marcelo to convince her to date him, but Marcelo knows that Wendell only wants to bed her. He has feelings for her himself but because of being autistic, doesn't know what to do about his feelings.
Marcelo finds a file that has a picture of a girl who was gravely injured in a car accident. The maker of the windshield was at fault, and the law firm is representing them. Marcelo decides that although he may hurt his father's firm, he must help the girl get the money to have the plastic surgery to fix her face. Marcelo has to decide what to do, what his father wants him to do or the right thing. He fights for the girl and helps her win the case. His father learns to respect that what he did was right.
The grown-up world is cruel and Marcelo doesn't want to have anything to do with it. In the end, his plans are to become a PT so he can work with austic children. He is genuinely a marvel.
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