Is The Outsiders a book?
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a realistic fiction book about a
boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy's parents are dead and he lives
with his two brothers: Sodapop and Darry. The brothers live in a
poor part of Tulsa Oklahoma and hang around with a crowd that to
most people would be more than a little questionable. The people
they hand out with are refered to as the greasers, from their hair.
The greasers are at 'war' with the socs, or socials: the rich kids.
The socs jump the greasers all the time. However, one time when the
socs jump Ponyboy and one of his buddies, Johnny, kills a soc. This
epic adventure changes Ponyboy's life forever.