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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

Slater, Dashka

Hardcover

Young Adult Nonfiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0374303231
ISBN13: 9780374303235
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: Oct 17 2017
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Stonewall Book Award, Yalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults

A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller

Stonewall Book Award Winner

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)

The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.

Two ends of the same line. Two sides of the same crime.

If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a Black teen, lived in the economically challenged flatlands and attended a large public one.

Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight. But in The 57 Bus, award-winning journalist Dashka Slater shows that what might at first seem like a simple matter of right and wrong, justice and injustice, victim and criminal, is something more complicated--and far more heartbreaking.

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