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.

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.

The 57 bus travels through both kinds of neighborhoods, traversing an eleven-mile path from one end of the city to the other. It begins at the northwest corner of Oakland and lumbers diagonally through the city, crossing the middle-class foothills where Sasha lived and where Richard went to school, and then

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.

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.

2018年10月27日 · If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Richard and Sasha would never have met. Although they live in the same city, they are from radically different worlds. But one single reckless act changes both of their lives forever. What happens next is a story of race and discrimination, but also of recovery, reconciliation and hope.

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 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.