by S.E. Hinton
Ever since I read Outsiders last week, I’ve been trying to get my hands on any S.E Hinton that I can. This is the one that I managed to get a hold of first and even though I didn’t enjoy it as much as The Outsiders, for a 78 page book, it was pretty immersive. Told from the perspective of Rusty-Ja...
I saw the movie many years ago, and when I saw the book, picked it up not fully recalling the story or subject.Finding oneself (or not), coming of age in a tough inner city, or becoming a man through learning life's lessons; they;re stories that never really change. Paperback above was originally...
It's worth a read for the hilarious comparison of a junkie named Cassandra to the classical Greek tragic figure.
I gobbled up Hinton books in middle school, because they were contemporary and realistic and a little gritty, unlike all the children's books I'd read before then. And also, because there weren't many of what we would now call YA books.
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