The title character is a poor and fatherless teenager growing up in The Bronx.

To the riders, all poor teenagers from the countryside, the days on the road are, quite simply, work, and better than many jobs they might get here.

Welsh universities have been told they cannot charge higher tuition fees next year unless they rewrite their plans to encourage more poor teenagers to take up places.

Thus, it is the story of the groups of rich teenagers and poorest teenagers.

Offa calls on top universities to waive tuition fees for the poorest teenagers, for their first year of study at least.

Included among the other programs to be cut would be those intended to prevent homelessness, employ poor teenagers during the summer and treat drug addicts.

One recent book said that the film's realistic portrayal of poor teenagers from the wrong side of the tracks "created a new kind of filmmaking".

Pity the poor teenager, caught in the cultural crossfire.

I think the poor teenagers get a bit of an unnecessarily bad rap for this sort of thing.

"Glad you said 'inside'-that poor teenager who got lambasted for being jealous about his girlfriend this morning sure didn't think the outside felt too good."