Finished

I finished reading Marcelo in the Real world and it was so good. Marcelo's dad is a lawyer trying to defend a windshield company called Vidromeck. A lot of people are trying to sue Vidromeck because when you get into a crash the windshields don't shatter into a million little pieces. Instead the break into big pieces that can cause serious damage. Marcelo was filing documents one day and when he was all done he looked through the trash box to make sure he didn't accidentally get rid of anything important. At the bottom of the box was a small brown envelope and inside the envelope was a picture of a girl with only half a face. Marcelo figured out that the girl was hurt by a windshield when she got into a crash and obviously the law firm wanted to get rid of the proof so Vidromeck didn't get busted.
Marcelo located the lawyer that the girl was using for her case. He went there and discovered that the girl's mom died shortly after the crash and she was living in a community house for girls with two friendly women. They couldn't afford the surgery so she would have to live like thateven though it hurt to talk and eat. The lawyer told him that if he found a document stating that Vidromeck knew the windshields were dangerous. He warns Marcelo first that if he finds it and makes it public that his dad will loose thousands of dollars but Vidromeck will have to pay for the girls surgery.
Marcelo thought long and hard aboutthe decision he was going to make and decided to make the document public. The law firm lost thousands of dollars and clients and Marcelo got fired and he had to go to public school for his senior year, but he was okay with it because the girl got her surgery.
Jasmine never ended up getting raped by Wendell, but she did get raped by Marcelo's dad. He confronted Jasmine about this and she asked him if he could pretend it never happened so it wouldn't interrupt their relationship. Marcelo decides that after high school he will move to Vermont with Jasmine and go to school to become a nurse and work with kids with mental illnesses just like him. He will get a bunch of ponies to use them as therapy with them. I <3 this book!