Praise for Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow A Newbery Honor Book Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book An Audie Award Finalist Winner of the 2023 CYBILS Award for Middle Grade Fiction Winner of the 2024-2025 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection An Indie Next Selection A National Education Association's Read Across America Recommendation A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2023 A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2023 A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book A Chicago Public Library Kids Best of the Best Book A Bank Street College 2024 Best Book of the Year (with a star for outstanding merit) A 2023-2024 Project LIT Book Club Pick An Amazon Editors' Pick January 2023 "Funny, poignant and--most important--hopeful." -- The New York Times "A remarkable achievement." --Ali Benjamin, New York Times best-selling and National Book Award-nominated author of The Thing About Jellyfish "Fast-paced and full of quirky characters, Simon Sort of Says presents a tragedy stitched up with humor, sensitivity, and rare humanity." --Jack Gantos, Newbery Award-winning author of Dead End in Norvelt "This book is as close to everything as one book can be." --Kyle Lukoff, Newbery Honor-winning, Stonewall Award-winning, and National Book Award-nominated author of Too Bright to See "Adroit, sensitive, horrifying, yet hilarious." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Compassionate and refreshingly hopeful." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Bow's storytelling brims with vitality." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books , starred review "A near-perfect novel.

" -- Shelf Awareness "[Masterful] . funny and heartfelt in equal measure." -- School Library Journal "Heartwarming, heartbreaking and, it must be said, hilarious." -- National Catholic Reporter.