2017年10月17日 · Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.

2013年11月4日 · The 57 Bus is about a real-life incident that occurred in Oakland, California, on November 4, 2013. The book’s approach is journalistic. Richard, a light-skinned Black teenager, is a junior at Oakland High School. He spent the previous year in a home for boys after getting arrested for fighting.

2015年1月29日 · For much of the long bus ride through Oakland, Calif., Sasha — who identifies as agender, neither male nor female — had been reading a paperback copy of “Anna Karenina,” but eventually the...

Dashka Slater’s The 57 Bus was published in 2017 and tells the true story of an incident that occurred in Oakland, California, in 2013 during which one teenager held a lighter to the skirt of an agender teenager. The book traces the life stories of both teenagers up until this moment and then follows the repercussions of the attack for them ...

2017年10月17日 · Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued 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.

2017年10月17日 · Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another...

Named one of the best young adult books of all time by Time Magazine, The 57 Bus is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling true story about two teenagers on either side of a high profile crime.

The 57 Bus tells the true story of two teenagers living in Oakland, California. The city, described as being racially and culturally diverse while also suffering from some of the highest rates of wealth inequality in the nation, is home to Sasha and Richard, two teenagers. Sasha identifies as agender, and is a white teen at Maybeck High.

2013年11月4日 · Dashka Slater’s The 57 Bus begins as Richard, a sixteen-year-old African American boy from Oakland High School, and Sasha, a genderqueer senior from a private school in Berkley, board the number 57 bus in Oakland, California. Richard and Sasha don’t know each other, but they both ride the 57 bus home from school every day.

The 57 Bus, which focuses on an actual crime with real characters, is a true crime narrative. The genre of true crime originated in sixteenth-century Britain, but it was made popular in America during the 1960’s with Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood .