Although long slicked-back hair may go in and out of fashion, worn blue jeans, broken-in motorcycle boots and plain T-shirts never really go out of style .

Likewise, Tulsa author S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" is experiencing a resurgence, but that doesn't mean her landmark 1967 novel has ever really gone away.

"That story is an American classic, as we know, and it hasn't been out of print in all of these years. ... It finds a new audience every year via the seventh- and eighth-grade students who are required to read it," said Danny Boy O'Connor, founder of The Outsiders House Museum in Tulsa.

"I just think it's a wonderfully told rite-of-passage story ... and its (meaning) has actually evolved for me in so many different ways over the years."

In Hinton's hometown of Tulsa, where

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