# S.E. Hinton — books assigned in US schools

**2** books by S.E. Hinton appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Lexile range:** 750L–750L
**Grade span:** 4–9
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/se-hinton
**Wikipedia (entity):** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._E._Hinton
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- class conflict
- family
- friendship
- identity
- loyalty
- violence

## Genres

- Young Adult Fiction

## Every S.E. Hinton title on file

- [The Outsiders](https://readinglist.school/book/the-outsiders) _(750L · Grades 7–9 · 1967)_
- [Tex](https://readinglist.school/book/tex) _(Grades 4–7)_

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