Educating Simon - Paperback

by Robin Reardon (Author)

Is the letter Z always dark purple? Have you ever wished the agonizing death of the blue ringed octopus' bite on anyone?

And if you were gay, would that help you understand a young transgender girl?

Everything sixteen-year-old Simon Fitzroy-Hunt loves is in England.There's his school, his boyfriend, his cat, and especially OxfordUniversity, which Simon plans to attend just as his beloved late fatherplanned. But all of Simon's certainties come crashing down when hismother remarries and drags him to Boston with her.

Author Biography

Robin Reardon is an inveterate observer of human nature and has been writing forever--childish songs, poems, little plays. More recent efforts include short stories, creative non-fiction, and novels for and about teenagers. By day Robin works as a communications manager for an international financial institution, writing, editing the work of others, and creating strategic communications approaches specializing in intranet delivery of internal communications. Interests outside of writing include singing, photography, and the study of comparative religions. Robin writes in a butter yellow study with a view of the Boston, Massachusetts, skyline.