S.E. Hinton

An orphan and a bastard, Jamie Sommers grew up knowing he had no hope of heaven. Conceived in adultery and born in sin, Jamie was destined to repeat the sins of his parents -or so the nuns told him. A...

Fourteen year-old Rusty-James idolizes his elder brother, the Motorcycle Boy, and wants to be just like him. Once the leader of a huge street gang, Motorcycle Boy remains calm, even laughs, in the fac...

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,...