The Outsiders is the first Young Adult Literature novel I ever read. I read it when I was nine and hardly understood the concepts it taught, I was just proud that I could read it. I've read it again since many times over. It's a gripping novel about friends, social pressures, violence, and growing up. The novel begins with the main character, Ponyboy Curtis, coming out of a movie theater with hardly a care in the world. We quickly learn that he is part of a gang called "the Greasers." They are part of the lower socioeconomic class and they are sworn enemies to a gang of spoiled rich kids, called "the Socs" (pronounced so-shez). The Greasers and the Socs both feel that the other has no place in this world and feel it their duty to remove them. Ponyboy, who is usually caught up in this rivalry, is moved when he meets a couple of nice girls in the Soc crowd. Quickly after that his best friend kills a young Soc out of self-defense. His world is shaken and he is caught up trying to sort out what is right and what is wrong, who is right and who is wrong.
It is by far my favorite young adult literature book. I recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it
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