u003cbu003eOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'u003c/bu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003eThe bestselling American classic of youthful rebellion and coming of age on the streets, adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola u003c/bu003e u003cpu003eThe Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old brawler, chainsmoker and dreamer, is a fiercely loyal greaser. But a single, murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows. u003ciu003eThe Outsiders u003c/iu003ewas an audacious debut written when S. E. Hinton was only seventeen, laying bare the hopes and terrors between teenage bravado in a world of drive-ins, drag races and switchblades. Confronting America with a new breed of anti-hero from the wrong side of the class divide, u003ciu003eThe Outsidersu003c/iu003e is a young adult novel of enduring power. It was made into a film in 1983 starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise. u003cpu003eWith an introduction by Jodi Picoult u003cpu003e'Gritty, emotional and very authentic' Jodi Picoult u003cpu003e'u003ciu003eThe Outsidersu003c/iu003e is a teenage epic' Francis Ford Coppola
