Simon’s story is touching and swoon-worthy. The story follows Simon as he tries to live his normal life – high school, drama club, his almost-too-supportive family, his friends and their dramas, falling for Blue, trying to figure out who Blue is – all while being blackmailed. All that is threatened when a classmate stumbles across Simon’s emails with Blue and threatens to out Simon to the whole school if he doesn’t help him get what he wants. Simon, 17, finds solace in his family, friendships, and anonymously exchanging emails with someone who calls himself “Blue”. 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. 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. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing with, will be compromised. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical.