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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

59 reviews

mccbooks's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Deadnaming

morebedsidebooks's review

medium-paced

4.0

As time has passed The 57 Bus has won multiple awards and made many best books list. As well as the dubious attention of appearing frequently in book challenges.
 

See my blog for an in-depth review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Confinement, and Medical content

Moderate: Hate crime, Racism, Cursing, Murder, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, and Homophobia

Minor: Bullying, Death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Suicide, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

This book also discusses the drug wars of the 1980s and 90s and mentions a parent incarcerated for drug offenses.

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

2.5

I ready liked some aspects of this book. I've not read a lot of young adult non-fiction and I found it very engaging. I think it tells a very important story about both sides of the crime and how it affected everyone involved and how unfair the US justice system is. 

However, I do think this could really use an update. There are various points where I found the language used outdated and uncomfortable. Also while focusing on an agender teen, it felt like this book fell into its own binary of man and woman, and other. There was very little space in this book for the gender spectrum. 

There were also a few descriptions of people that seemed unnecessary and made me feel kind of uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Hate crime, Racism, Transphobia, Racial slurs, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Murder, Ableism, and Confinement

Minor: Fatphobia and Rape

saragrochowski's review

challenging informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Deadnaming, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, and Bullying

serena_hien's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Death and Gun violence

max_vampire's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Dysphoria

lexiereads22's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

naiu_cs's review against another edition

emotional informative tense fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Death, Gun violence, and Drug use

cheesepuppy's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Wow. It was almost hard to remember this was a real life event. Slater did a phenomenal job in her writing to really make you feel empathy for both people. This is real. You don’t get clean cut right and wrong. The laws aren’t the answer. 

My only wish is that this had been written by or with someone who could have an own voices perspective. Regardless, this was well done. I’m still torn. I care for both people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide and Grief

sunnybugz's review

informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

Read this book for class- a very interesting memoir. As a genderqueer autistic person, I related to Sasha a lot. But as someone who grew up poor and in a rough neighbourhood, I emphasized deeply with Richard. I appreciate the in-depth discussion about the failures of the justice system- especially the juvenile justice system. I appreciate how Richard wasn't made out to be an extreme villain, but rather a teenager who did something terrible but is growing from it. The pacing wasn't my favourite, and the writing felt somewhat flat at times, but the story itself is very important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Deadnaming, Racism, Death, Gun violence, Grief, and Cursing