Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 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. 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. Awards and Accolades for The 57 Bus: A New York Times Bestseller Stonewall Book Award Winner YALS a Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist A Boston Globe - Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book Winner A TIME Magazine Best Y a Book of All Time A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Don t miss Dashka Slater's newest propulsive and thought - provoking nonfiction book Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed the YALS a Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner which National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi hails as powerful timely and delicately written.
Title: The 57 Bus A True Story Of Two Teenagers And The Crime That Changed Their Lives
Author(s): Slater Dashka
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux (Byr)
Barcode: 9780374303235
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/17/2017