The East Side

Ponyboy is fourteen, tough and confused, yet sensitive behind his bold front.

Since his parents’ death, his loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang, the rough,

swinging, longhaired boys from the wrong side of the tracks. When his best friend,

Johnny, kills a member of a rival gang, a nightmare of violence begins and swiftly

envelops Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events.

Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator, begins the novel with a story: he is walking home

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