H.E. Hinton

What does it mean to be a "self-confessed tomboy"?

• It means you are a boy named, Tom.

• It means a girls acts like a girl.

• It means a girl acts more like a boy.

• It means you're a cat.

How old was Hinton when she started writing, The Outsiders?

• 14

• 15

• 16

• 17

Why did Hinton only use the initials of her first and middle names when publishing, The Outsiders?

• She didn't like her name.

• She wanted to make readers wonder what her name was.

• She wanted to hide that she was a female writing the book so that boys would read it, too.

• She wanted to remain anonymous.

What year was The Outsiders first published?

• 1964

• 1967

• 1971

• 1976

Which books were made into movies?

• The Outsiders

• Rumble Fish

• The Puppy Sister

• Tex

Read the following sentence, "In 1988, she wrote Taming the Star Runner and in 1995, deviated from writing for young adults and wrote two children‘s books, The Puppy Sister and Big David, Little David." Using the clues from the text, what does the word deviated mean?

• took a different route

• broke in half

• turned bad

• ate strange food