{"product_id":"the-57-bus-a-true-story-of-two-teenagers-and-the-crime-that-changed-their-lives-9780374303235","title":"The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe riveting \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe 57\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBus\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo ends of the same line. Two sides of the same crime. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach 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 \u003ci\u003eThe 57 Bus\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAwards and Accolades for \u003ci\u003eThe 57 Bus\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eStonewall Book Award Winner\u003cbr\u003eYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist\u003cbr\u003eA Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book Winner\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine Best YA Book of All Time\u003cbr\u003eA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDon't miss Dashka Slater's newest propulsive and thought-provoking nonfiction book, \u003ci\u003eAccountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed\u003c\/i\u003e, the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner which National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi hails as \"powerful, timely, and delicately written.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning journalist\u003cb\u003e Dashka Slater\u003c\/b\u003e has written for such publications as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Mother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e. Her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling young-adult true crime narrative, \u003ci\u003eThe 57 Bus\u003c\/i\u003e, has received numerous accolades, including the Stonewall Book Award, the California Book Award, and a \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe-Horn Book\u003c\/i\u003e Honor. It was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist and an \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award Finalist, in addition to receiving four starred reviews and being named to more than 20 separate lists of the year's best books, including ones compiled by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the New York Public Library, and \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2021, \u003ci\u003eThe 57 Bus\u003c\/i\u003e was named to \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. The author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, Dashka teaches in Hamline University's MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She lives and writes in Oakland, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50580178043154,"sku":"9780374303235","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fafb3f8d-9273-4ee0-bdd0-418240d7bd84.jpg?v=1732008407","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-57-bus-a-true-story-of-two-teenagers-and-the-crime-that-changed-their-lives-9780374303235","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}