What is the purpose of the 57 bus?

Hereof, what is the main idea of the 57 bus?

The book's main theme is resistance to reductive binaries, whether it's good and bad, adult and child, or male and female.

Beside above, why did Dashka Slater wrote the 57 bus? Dashka Slater wrote it after hearing of the horrifying crime from her neighborhood email list. “The story took place really close to where I live,” says Slater, author of The 57 Bus, an affective, inventive adaptation for YA readers (ages 14-18).

Simply so, what happened in the 57 bus?

Parents need to know that The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives is a compelling, sometimes emotional nonfiction story of a 2013 assault in Oakland, California, when an African American public school teen boy named Richard set fire to a sleeping, gender-nonconforming white

Is the 57 bus a true story?

That's what Oakland writer Dashka Slater set out explore. Slater's new book, “The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives,” is a nonfiction narrative about the shocking crime that illuminated divisions in race, class and gender in Oakland.