From the Bookshelf of Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge…

When I received a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of The Outsiders I really had no intention of reading a story of Oklahoma teenagers in the fifties – written by a teenager. But a few pages in, like millions of others, I was sucked right in.

It was about halfway through that I realized the resemblance to my own teenage experience in suburban Los Angeles. Socs = Surfers, from the Westside a

When I received a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of The Outsiders I really had no intention of reading a story of Oklahoma teenagers in the fifties – written by a teenager. But a few pages in, like millions of others, I was sucked right in.

It was about halfway through that I realized the resemblance to my own teenage experience in suburban Los Angeles. Socs = Surfers, from the Westside and Greasers = Lowriders, from the Eastside.

We did pretty dumb stuff too. Fortunately nobody got killed.