Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Product Description

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.

Review

Albertalli paints a stunningly three-dimensional, cliche-free world for Simon that bursts with unforgettable characters. Savor it, because you ll read it for the first time only once. Worthy of Fault in Our Stars-level obsession. --Entertainment Weekly"

Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn t just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now. --Tim Federle, author of Better Nate than Ever"

Becky Albertalli has written the best kind of love story: the kind in which you fall in love with the characters as they fall in love with each other. --Alex Sanchez, Lambda Award-winning author of Rainbow Boys and Boyfriends with Girlfriends"

Debut novelist Albertalli writes believably in the voice of a confused, openhearted 16-year-old. Readers will fall madly in love with Simon. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

Delightfully funny and at times heart-wrenching. Readers will ache for Simon s awkwardness, cheer his small triumphs, but, most of all, fall in love with this kid and with this remarkable gift of a novel. --Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle"

Funny, moving and emotionally wise. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

I am so in love with this book. --Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still"

Rife with realistic, high school relationships and drama, with a laugh or two at every turn, this is a coming-of-age, coming-out, and defying-the-odds story with which many teens will identify. --SLJ"

Though there are realistic moments of tension, the dominant sentiment here is the delicious excitement of finding your best self in the eyes of someone else; not since Levithan s Boy Meets Boy have readers been treated to such a happy sigh of a book about two boys falling in love. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)"