Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
“This beautifully written young adult novel of compassion tells the story of Marcelo, a seventeen-year-old boy on the autism spectrum, who gets his first taste of the emotionally complicated and sometimes cruel aspects of human nature. Marcelo, who hears music no one else can—what he refers to as IM or inner music— has attended a school with others just like him …