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A. CHAMBERS

The only major flaw [in The Outsiders] is that the book is written with self-indulgence, and could profitably have been cut. Apart from this, even the over-didacticism of its first person narrative—it is as didactic as modern pop songs—comes off the page with such absorbed conviction, such persuasive truth and emotional power that one accepts it. The story has humour, passion, tenderness, intelligence, action a-plenty and, best of all, compassion.

A. Chambers, in a review of "The Outsiders," in Children's Book News, Vol. 5, No. 6, November-December, 1970, p. 280.

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1. Introduction
2. Lillian N. Gerhardt
3. Thomas Fleming
4. William Jay Jacobs
5. A. Chambers
6. Sheryl B. Andrews
7. Michael Cart
8. The Times Literary Supplement
9. John Rowe Townsend
10. Jane Abramson
11. Anita Silvey
12. Robert Berkvist
13. Dorothy Nimmo
14. The Council On Interracial Books For Children
15. Paxton Davis
16. Margery Fisher
17. Lance Salway
18. Susan Thompson
19. Copyright

1. S. E. Hinton