S.E. Hinton: Author of the Outsiders

by Marylou Morano Kjelle

The publication of The Outsiders forty years ago turned the young adult publishing industry upside down, and it hasn't been the same since. Bored with the benign themes common to teenage literature at the time, S.E. Hinton, a teenager herself, set out to write a novel that contained all the gritty realism that surrounded her at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Praised, condemned and in some cases even banned, The Outsiders opened a new...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766027201
• ISBN13: 9780766027206
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12