The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
452The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
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Overview
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
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book Winner
A TIME Magazine Best YA 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 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner which National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi hails as “powerful, timely, and delicately written.”
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9798885794039 |
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Publisher: | Gale, A Cengage Group |
Publication date: | 12/06/2023 |
Edition description: | Large Print |
Pages: | 452 |
Sales rank: | 211,725 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d) |
Age Range: | 14 - 17 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Author's Note xiii
Monday, November 4, 2013 3
Oakland, California 6
Part 1 Sasha 9
Tumbling 11
Pronouns 13
1001 Blank White Cards 16
Luke and Samantha 21
Gran Turismo 2 26
How Do You Know What Gender You Are? 28
Genderqueer 31
Gender, Sex, Sexuality, Romance: Some Terms 33
Sasha's Terms 36
Becoming Sasha 37
Bathrooms 40
Bathrooms Revisited 42
Skirts 43
Running 46
The Petition 48
Clipboards 50
Best Day Ever 52
Dress Code 53
Sasha and Nemo 55
Part 2 Richard 57
Book of Faces 59
An Old Friend 62
Oakland High School 64
Miss Kaprice 66
The Princess of East Oakland 69
The Best Mother Ever 75
Hopes and Prayers 77
Where He Left Off 81
How It Was Before 83
Fighting 85
Arrested 87
Now It's a Good Day 89
If 91
Murder 93
Working 96
Stripped 98
Trust Issues 100
Resolve 102
Part 3 The Fire 103
Monday, November 4, 2013 105
The 57 Bus 107
4:52 p.m. 110
Fire 114
Watching 117
The Man with the Mustache 119
Phone Call 120
The Rim Fire's Revenge 123
The Ten O'Clock News 125
Locked Out 126
Maybeck 128
Shyam 130
I Knew My Baby 132
The Interview, Part 1 134
Miranda Warning 137
The Interview, Part 2 139
The Interview, Part 3 142
A Man in a Kilt 144
This Is Real 146
Booked In 151
Surgery 155
Still Kinda Dying 157
Charges 160
Direct Files 161
Court Date 165
Reeling 167
The Desk 168
Under the Influence of Adolescence 172
Life at Bothin 176
Not Visiting 178
The First Letter 180
Into the Briefcase 181
Skirts for Sasha 182
The Second Letter 184
Let's All Take Care of Each Other 187
Homophobic 189
What They Sent 191
No H8 193
Y'All Don't Know 196
The Circle 198
Skinned 200
God Is Good 201
Does It Have to Be Me? 204
Back at Maybeck 205
Worst Days Ever 207
Reunion 209
Part 4 Justice 213
Binary 215
Cruel and Unusual? 216
Back at Juvie 218
What If? 221
Not Ready 223
What to Say 224
Always Okay 226
We the People 227
Pretty 229
Dancing 232
Ripples 234
Ass Smacking 236
Restorative Justice 240
Not Wanting To 242
The People vs. Richard 243
Tired 245
Department 11 246
Maybe 248
Suitcase 249
A Prayer 251
Bargaining 253
The Deal 255
The Fine Print 257
A Structured Environment 259
Look Where His People Went 261
Victim-Impact Statement 263
Nerd Fraternity 265
How It Ended Up 267
Mail Delivery 269
Chad 270
Opportunity 271
Then and Now 276
Risky Thinking 279
Progress Report 283
A Level of Maturity 287
Andrew and the Binary 289
Birthdays 291
1001 No-Longer-Blank White Cards 294
Some Gender-Neutrality Milestones 297
Some Numbers: US Juvenile Incarceration 301
Acknowledgments 303
Credits 306