Book Review #8 ~ The Outsiders

Hello everybody!
Yes, I'm back with another great review about another great book~!
So this one is called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton. Surprisingly, as I was reading the front of the book, it says the novel was written when the author was 16. Which is absolutely amazing, because this is one of the 100 best books of ALL TIME. Also, of all the books she has written, this is one of the most popular and best-selling. (I think if it's popular, it's probably best-selling.) AUGH JUMPING AROUND SUBJECTS AGAIN >.<
Alright so to the story.

Our protagonist is a 14-year-old boy named Ponyboy. -stifles laugh- Yes, I know, Ponyboy. But he's no wimp. He's part of a gang. The reason? Alright, so after his parents passed away, his loyalties have been completely to his two brothers, Soda and Darry, plus his gang. He didn't care so much for his gang before, but since he has no one else to depend on, he puts his trust in his friends. The gang is made up of a bunch of tough, rough, and rowdy boys who all came from the wrong side of the tracks. They have all been in fistfights, still participate in "Rumbles," and come from pretty sad homes. So Ponyboy is closest with a boy in the gang named Johnny. Johnny and Ponyboy are in the park one night and the rival gang from a higher class town comes and starts to taunt them and torture them. Being the youngest members of their own gang and probably the rival gang too, it makes it hard to fight against them. They fight with everything that they've got and by accident, Johnny kills one of the gang members. The gangfight breaks up after Johnny murders him, and from then on, a nightmare of violence begins and envelops Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events.

I thought this was a very capturing book, and I honestly had trouble prying my eyes off of the page. It was really that good. I recommend this to everyone, boys and girls. People who have a bit of an adventurous sense will like it even more than I did, probably.
Anyways, happy reading to all of you!