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, is under his rough shell is a very sensitive boy. His loyalty is his street gang, the Grease. When his best friend but a member of the rival gang kills him for breaking a world together. In the abbreviated and simplified form, this work is available from Class 8 applications.