Simon Sort of Says: (Newbery Honor Book)

by Erin Bow

Things are wrong because sometimes the world just sucks, but my last therapist worked hard to teach me not to apologize for that.

Two weeks ago, one of the other girls called Agate a hippo. Agate told her that hippos can charge at thirty kilometers an hour, and that hippos, not tigers or anything, are the large animal that kills the most humans. Then she smiled so big her molars showed and went back to running across Utah. Today, she turned up in a brand-new tank top featuring a hippo wearing four red running shoes.