Penguin Originals: Outsiders
Author: SE Hinton
ISBN: 9780241387184
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No. of Pages, 224
Unusually honest and gritty, this groundbreaking 1967 young adult novel inspired Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film of the same name—a production that author S.E. Hinton was very much a part of. Narrated by Ponyboy, the youngest in a family of three orphaned boys, it explores themes of fraternal love and class conflict in rival high school gangs of "greasers" and "socialites" in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hinton vividly depicts the teen violence she experienced growing up—so much so that along with winning a Massachusetts Children's Book Award and being named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, the novel has also appeared on the ALA's list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books.
