# The Outsiders

**Author(s):** Jim Fyfe, Jodi Picoult, S. E. Hinton
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-outsiders/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, middle-grade, young-adult, childrens
**Pages:** 192
**Publisher:** Viking Press, Dell Publishing
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9789655454833
**ISBN-10:** 0670532576
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-outsiders

## Description

According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back.

Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.

([source][1])


  [1]: http://www.sehinton.com/books/

## SageChimp reader verdict

The Outsiders has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 4.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-outsiders/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★ (Untitled) — angieruelas234