Other editions of book The O.C.: The Outsider

Must-see TV becomes gotta-have-it teen read!A scruffy, but soulful delinquent gets tossed into the deep end of the flashy, cash-filled pool of the beautiful, the botoxed, the bling-bling-blessed. Meet Ryan Atwood, a 16-year-old brooding bad boy who's homeless and headed for juvie when his do-good lawyer Sandy Cohen opens his home, household, hearth, and heart to him. Home is a mansion; the household includes 16-year-old quirky-cute but friendless son Seth, hearth is the pool house that will be Ryan's crib-and heart? She's the poor-little-rich-girl next door, Marissa.

Get the story behind the TV show--stories you won't find anywhere else! Everything's changing in the O.C.The Newport summer scene has arrived and it's the same old days at the beach and nights spent partying . . . only this year it isn't. When Ryan announced that he was going back to Chino to help Theresa raise her baby (Is it his baby? He doesn't know) everything changed. Seth hit the water, leaving his family and Summer behind, sailing his boat to places unknown. Marissa's losing herself in a bottle and an unlikely romance. As for Summer, she's slipping back into her old life and a new love. Everything's changed. Nothing is the same. Can it ever be again?