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Friday, October 1, 2010

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Trapped by society, 7 young men try to find where they can be at peace with the world. While they are wilder than others their age, their source of survival is wrapped up in being tough and banding together with others like themselves. Through one unlikely evening, their lives are dramatically altered forever. Nothing would be able to return things to the way they had been but they all would be changed through the events.

This book gives a glimpse of what life is like for those who live differently than I do. While this book is older, there are many similar groups of teens that have many of the same struggles that these teens do. It can be easy to get swept up in the hopelessness and futility that many lives are ended but there are some people who live with this all their lives. This book would be great for students in middle school but it would be more beneficial for the parents to read and discuss it with them.

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