Title: The Outsiders Author: S. E. Hinton Average number of words per page: more than 100 STORY: 757 readers have rated this story. Average story rating: 8.55/10.0 ILLUSTRATIONS: 757 readers have rated the illustrations. Average illustration rating: 6.13/10.0

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Story Rating 9.5 out of a possible 10.0

Book review by: Tamazi M.J. age: 13 Review submitted on 11/01/2005 at 11:44:58 list all 757 reviews for this book

Illustrations Rating 0.0 out of a possible 10.0

Tamazi M.J. writes the following about The Outsiders :

tHIS BOOK WAS GREAT I READ IT IN SCHOOL ONE OF MY FAVOURITES UNDER lORD oF tHE rINGS. pONYBOY cURTIS IS A gREASER FROM THE eAST sIDE ALONG WITH HIS BROTHERS dARRY AND sODA.hIS PARENTS HAD DIED TWO YEARS BEFORE IN A CAR CRASH. tHE gREASERS ARE HOODS AND THEY HATE THE sOC (sOCIALS) AND THE sOC HATE THEM. oNE NIGHT AFTER NEARLY GETTING INTO A FIGHT WITH FIVE sOC OVER TWO GIRLS (cHERRY AND mARCIA) pONYBOY AND HIS FREIND jOHNNY WHO HAD BEEN BEATEN UP BY ONE OF THE sOC WERE CORNERED BY THEM SO jONNY STABBED AND KILLED THE ONE CALLED bOB rANDAL WHO WAS DROWNING pONYBOY IN A FOUNTAIN. tHEY GO TO dALLY (NOT dARRY)WHO IS A FELLOW gREASER, HE GIVES THEM A HEATER(GUN)AND $100 TELLS THEM TO GO TO A CHURCH ON TOP OF jAY mOUNTAIN. tHIS SETS ON FIRE AND jOHNNY AND pONYBOY SAVE FIVE CHILDREN INSIDE IT BUT jOHNNY BREAKS HIS BACK SO dALLY RAN IN AND GOT HIM OUT. pONYBOY GOES BACK HOME AFTER A CHECK-UP AT THE HOSPITAL BUT jONNY HAS TO STAY THERE IN A BAD STATE. LATER ON HE IS INVOLVED IN A BIG RUMBLE(FIGHT) AGAINST THE sOC. AFTER THE RUMBLE jONNY DIES AND SO DOES dALLY. tHE eND

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