Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

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

54 reviews

zsometimesreads's review

inspiring

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Transphobia and Deadnaming

Minor: Suicide

ingame's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Violence

fred_nom_nom's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

3.25

I don't recommend this book as a first or only source of information on the topic, because you can tell that the person who wrote it isn't directly effected by the things they're writing about e.g misgendering, using deadnames and using words and discriptions which aren't fitting or even hurtful 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Hate crime

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Racial slurs, Deadnaming, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Transphobia, Death, Dysphoria, Gun violence, and Suicide attempt

j4mi3's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

3.75

Showed hatecrime in a very real & understandable way. showed both sides very well

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Content Warnings

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

allapaz's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

I read this book in one sitting. That’s how easy this is to pick up and get sucked into. 

Love love love wow so much to unpack, I already want to reread 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism, Death, Death of parent, and Gun violence

mandi4886's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Transphobia, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Violence, Bullying, Sexism, Classism, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

jkw7072's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia

anne_shouseofdreams's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia and Fire/Fire injury

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.