The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Available At: Challenger, Chinook Trail (MS), DCC (MS), DCC (HS), Liberty, Pine Creek, Rampart, Timberview
Added to CTMS approx. Nov 2023
Categories: Cursing, LGBTQ+, Politics, Sexual, Violence
Description: If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met.
YA Label?: No
Notes: The book contains references to sexuality, alternate gender ideologies, profanity and inflammatory political commentary.
Rating: 2
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Snippets
Page 4: “A senior at a small private high school, the teenager identifies as agender- neither male nor female.”
Page 16: “For their sixteenth birthday, Sasha asked for an accordion, a manual typewriter, a Soviet flag, and a new Rubik’s Cube.”
Page 24: “Sometimes she wishes she could rip the skin off her back, Every moment of every day she feels trapped in the flesh of a stranger.”
Page 46: One leaned out the window, ‘Let me suck your prick.’”
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