"The Outsiders" is one of my favorite novels I had enjoyed reading with my 7th grade students when I taught language arts in a middle school. The Outsiders is a novel written by S.E.Hinton in 1967. This book is a coming-of-age fictional story written by the author when she was a teenager. The main character, Ponyboy Curtis, narrates the story who lives with his two older brothers after his paren..