Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
by Becky Albertalli
Imagine you're 16 years old, not-so-openly gay, and carrying on a conversation with you first real crush through email. Now imagine those emails falling into the wrong hands and being used to blackmail you. What's at stake? Just your secret and the identity of your crush being exposed to your entire high school! Welcome to Simon Spier's junior year.
While he continues to fall hard and fast for "Blue" despite having never knowingly met him, Simon has to try and find a way to step outside of the box he's put himself in before he gets dragged out of it. Will he find a way to step out without alienating his friends, giving into his blackmailer's demands, disappointing himself, and/or ruining any shot he has at happiness with the greatest guy he's ever known?
Grab some Oreos and this award winning book (which just so happens to have been turned into a film that's set to be released in early 2018) to see how Simon's epic story plays out as he singlehandedly takes on the homo sapiens agenda.
“When an email falls into the wrong hands, sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or risk having his sexual identity revealed and the privacy of the boy he's been emailing compromised.”
Albertalli, B. (2015). Simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda. New York, NY: Balzer + Bray. ISBN: 9780062348678; Hardcover; $17.99.
