Becky Albertalli is the author of young adult novels including ‘The Upside of Unrequited,’ ‘Leah on the Offbeat,’ ‘Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda’ and co-author of ‘What If It’s Us.’ ‘Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda’ tells the story of Simon Spier, a closeted gay teenager who is trying to balance school, his friends and family while dealing with the blackmailer who is threatening to out him to the entire school and trying to discover the identity of the anonymous classmate he has fallen in love with. The movie adaptation, Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner is now in theaters.

According to Amazon, ‘Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda’ is the award-winning novel about Simon, a sixteen-year-old high school student who is still in the closet and prefers to save his drama for the school musical. Everything is going fine until an email falls into the wrong hands and his secret is at risk of being revealed. He is being blackmailed and if he does not play wingman for the class clown, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. The privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he has been emailing with, is also in jeopardy. Now Simon must find a way out of his comfort zone, before he is pushed out, without alienating his friends, compromising himself or ruining his chances with the best guy he has ever met.