The 57 Bus

by Dashka Slater
Lexile:  930
Genre:  Informational, Biography

The 57 Bus is a true story of two high school students from Oakland, California. Sasha was a teenager in a skirt riding a city bus who fell asleep.  Richard was a teenager with a lighter riding a city bus who thought it would be a funny joke to set something on fire.  The two strangers meet on the 57 bus and their short, chance encounter will change both of their lives forever.