S.E. Hinton

As a sixteen-year-old SE Hinton wrote this classic of youth literature, which in the U.S. alone a circulation of over 9 million copies has been reached. Ponyboy, the 14-year-old first-person narrator, is under his rough shell is a very sensitive boy. His loyalty is his street gang, the Grease. When his best friend but a member of the rival gang...

In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a good time is beating up greasers like Ponyboy....