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A review by livsinbooks
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
4.0
I read this in the sixth grade and I just remember reading a few chapters and having to write a short essay and we had a sub that day and I asked how to spell restaurant which I will never ever forget because she made me walk around in circles around the classroom spelling it out loud because “that way you’ll never forget”. She literally made me humiliate myself to learn to spell one word. I hate her. Whoever she was.
I love this book. Love love love. Classism. Racism. Gang violence. Love. Friendship. Loss. Grief. Mental health issues of sorts. So much. Just so much in such a short middle grade (?) book and done with such care and sensitivity.
I highly recommend this book even if I don’t know why I would have been talking about a restaurant in an essay about this book.
Edit: Upon googling for publication year… the author is a woman (who wrote this in HIGH SCHOOL) and that explains so much of the gentle way all of the hard topics are handled and how the voice is so very young adult. I think it also showcases extremely just how different teenagers are today than they were five or six decades ago and how some things truly never ever change.
I love this book. Love love love. Classism. Racism. Gang violence. Love. Friendship. Loss. Grief. Mental health issues of sorts. So much. Just so much in such a short middle grade (?) book and done with such care and sensitivity.
I highly recommend this book even if I don’t know why I would have been talking about a restaurant in an essay about this book.
Edit: Upon googling for publication year… the author is a woman (who wrote this in HIGH SCHOOL) and that explains so much of the gentle way all of the hard topics are handled and how the voice is so very young adult. I think it also showcases extremely just how different teenagers are today than they were five or six decades ago and how some things truly never ever change.