Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
About this book
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.
With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.
Subjects
- 2016 summer
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- children's fiction
- coming out (sexual orientation)
- extortion
- fiction
- friendship
- friendship, fiction
- friendship in adolescence
- gays
- gay teenagers
- highland park high school
- high schools
- homosexuality
- homosexuality, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile fiction / love & romance
- juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship
- juvenile fiction / social issues / homosexuality
- lgbt
- lgbtq coming out
- lgbtq young adult
- library list
- love & romance
- pen pals
- reading list
- schools
- schools, fiction
- school stories
- secrecy
- secrets
- social issues
- young adult
- young adult fiction, lgbtq+
- young adult fiction, romance, lgbtq+
- young adult fiction, social themes, friendship