Read for Cannonball Read Bingo: Throwback Thursday For the second time this summer, I re-read a middle school classic that stuck with me. The Giver was as good as I remembered. This one, The Outsiders, was a little less so but still maintained its charm. The negatives though are small ones and they don’t outweigh the the book’s empathy and understanding. SE Hinton wrote this when she was 16 so she gets how teenagers talk. There’s no patronizing or condescension the way there often is when adults write […]