Tex

by S. E. Hinton

Overview

From the best-selling author of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton's Tex explores friendships, conflict, depression, self-destructive behavior, and truth and acceptance. This edition includes a new and exclusive Author's Note.

Easygoing and reckless, Tex, likes everyone and everything, especially his horse, Negrito, and Johnny Collins' blue-eyed sister, Jamie. Life with his older brother, Mason, would be just about perfect if only he would stop complaining about Pop, who hasn't been home in five months.  While Mason worries about paying the bills and getting a basketball scholarship—his ticket out of Oklahoma—Tex just seems to attract trouble. When everything seems to be falling apart, how can Tex find a way to keep things together?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385375672
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/06/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	54,252
Product dimensions:	5.76(w) x 8.04(h) x 0.52(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

S. E. Hinton wrote her first novel, The Outsiders, when she was 16. She was the recipient of the ALA’s first Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors authors “whose books have provided young adults with a window through which they can view their world and which will help them to grow and to understand themselves and their role in society.” The author lives in Tulsa, OK.

Editorial Reviews

Reader Jeff Woodman throws just enough of a Southwestern twang into his voice to make 15-year-old Tex the kind of down-home kid that teens can believe in. Woodman's delivery is high spirited and energetic. It bounces all over the emotional spectrum, like Tex's horse and his wild imagination. Tex himself, being 15 and angry at his brother for selling his horse to pay the bills, and in love with the cutest girl in school, and wondering if his father cares about him, is pretty daring, maybe even foolish. Though this lands him in a lot of trouble at school, it also helps him grow and put things in perspective. After scaring everyone to death and landing in a hospital to boot, he and we are a little closer to some answers. P.E.F. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

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