The cast of Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders.

The original 1965 cover art for The Outsiders.

Penguin introduced this cover in 1967.

When she was a student at Lone Star Junior High School in Fresno, California, Kristi Yeramian Bishop helped her school librarian, Jo Ellen Misakian, start a petition asking Francis Ford Coppola to make The Outsiders into a movie.

A spread from Bishop’s 1983 yearbook featured photos from the movie premiere at her school. Bishop is pictured posing with the film’s stars and (to the right of the red square) getting a kiss from Ralph Macchio.

Librarian Jo Ellen Misakian with C. Thomas Howell, who starred as Ponyboy in Coppola's film.

Misakian’s own copy of The Outsiders, with autographs from the cast of the movie.

C. Thomas Howell's autographed headshot for Lone Star Junior High School.

The Outsiders’ current cover, updated in 2006.