<div>From the author of The Outsiders: &ldquo;Immediate and gripping&rdquo; tales of two boys whose lives diverge in dramatic ways after a shared childhood tragedy (School Library Journal). Terry and Mike were cousins who were as close as cousins could be&mdash;more like twin brothers, really. They thought they were invincible and that the happy times would last forever, until the day their fathers headed off for their annual deer-hunting trip. That was when everything started to change, and their paths went in very different directions. Years later, another fateful event will send one of them to prison&mdash;and the other to a bartending job in Oklahoma&mdash;while the prospect of an eventual reunion looms . . . From the award-winning author of That Was Then, This Is Now and Rumble Fish, &ldquo;Some of Tim&rsquo;s Stories is a compact set of vignettes&rdquo; full of &ldquo;sharp, concise observation&rdquo; (The New York Times).</div>

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Some of Tim's Stories

<div>A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year: &ldquo;An utterly disarming, believable portrait of a small-town adolescent.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times An ALA Best Book for Young Adults One of New York Public Library&rsquo;s Books for the Teen-Age An American Book Award Nominee Tex McCormick, fifteen, is happy&mdash;happy living in a small town in Oklahoma; happy living with his big brother Mason; and especially happy to live next door to his best friend Johnny, and Johnny&#39;s sister Jamie. But with money running out and no sign of Pop for months on end, Mason is getting nervous. He&#39;s talking about leaving Oklahoma too, for good. Feeling adrift, Tex goes looking for&mdash;and finds&mdash;trouble. When happiness is impossible to find, how will Tex keep himself and his family together? This classic by the author of The Outsiders and Rumble Fish explores the true meanings of strength and vulnerability. &ldquo;In Tex, the raw energy for which Hinton has justifiably reaped praise has not been tamed&mdash;it&rsquo;s been cultivated, and the result is a fine, solidly constructed, and well-paced story.&rdquo;&mdash;School Library Journal</div>

<div>&ldquo;A powerful story&rdquo; of a boy leaving the city streets for a summer at a horse farm&mdash;and discovering the possibility of a different life(Kirkus Reviews). An ALA Best Book for Young Adults An ALA Quick Pick With an absent mother and a domineering stepfather, Travis uses his tough-guy exterior to hide his true passion: writing. After a violent confrontation with his stepfather, Travis is sent to live on his uncle&rsquo;s horse ranch&mdash;exile to a born-and-bred city kid. Angry and yearning for a connection, Travis befriends Casey, the horse-riding instructor at the ranch, and the untamable horse in her stable: the Star Runner. When a friend from the city visits with stories of other kids from the neighborhood facing jail time, Travis is more determined than ever that he needs to escape the life of juvenile delinquency he seems destined for. When the offer of a book deal comes through, Travis is hopeful that this is his chance to escape&mdash;if only his stepfather will stop standing in the way of his dreams. In this novel, the acclaimed author of The Outsiders &ldquo;portrays her characters with sympathy and yet commendably refuses to gloss over rough edges or gritty truths&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;Hinton continues to grow more reflective in her books, but her great understanding, not of what teenagers are but of what they can hope to be, is undiminished.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Taming the Star Runner

<div>Four gripping, intense novels from &ldquo;the author who changed the way that books for teens were written&rdquo; (The New Yorker). With millions of copies sold, S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novels have inspired readers of all ages for generations. This volume includes four of the award-winning author&rsquo;s most compelling books. In Rumble Fish, two brothers discover how the bond of blood can be as tight as a noose: &ldquo;Packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling.&rdquo;&mdash;School Library Journal In Taming the Star Runner, a horse provides an opportunity for escape to a troubled young aspiring writer: &ldquo;A powerful story.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews In Tex, a boy goes looking for trouble, but might find redemption instead: &ldquo;An utterly disarming, believable portrait of a small-town adolescent.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times And in Some of Tim&rsquo;s Stories, a bartender recounts the story of two lives torn apart by tragedy: &ldquo;Immediate and gripping.&rdquo;&mdash;School Library Journal</div>

S.E. Hinton Classic Collection

<div>From the author of The Outsiders: This novel about two brothers in a tough world &ldquo;packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling&rdquo; (School Library Journal). An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year Rusty-James wants to be just like his big brother Motorcycle Boy&mdash;tough enough to be respected by everyone in the neighborhood. But Motorcycle Boy is also smart, so smart that Rusty-James relies on him to bail him out of trouble. The brothers are inseparable, and Motorcycle Boy will always be there to watch his back, so there&#39;s nothing to worry about, right? Or so Rusty-James believes, until his world falls apart and Motorcycle Boy isn&#39;t there to pick up the pieces. An edgy, emotional portrait of a troubled kid trying to navigate the chaotic world around him, Rumble Fish was made into a film by Francis Ford Coppola and has become a modern classic praised by School Library Journal as &ldquo;stylistically superb&rdquo; and beloved by multiple generations of readers. &ldquo;Hinton knows how to plunge us right into [Rusty-James&rsquo;s] dead-end mentality&mdash;his inability to verbalize much of anything, to come to grips with his anger about his alcoholic father and the mother who deserted him, even his distance from his own feelings.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

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