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The story ends with Sasha fully recovering from the burns and surgeries and thriving at college. Richard gets the 5 year sentence in a county penitentiary. All the parents and victims have learned and accepted apologies and forgiveness.

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This book begins with descriptions of Sasha, her lifestyle, her friends and her personality such as the kind of clothes they were and what pronouns they prefer. The town is also revealed, Oakland, California.There is also the description of crime rates and death rates of Oakland to describe the bad side of town. There are two parts to the town that are split up by open-minded and accepting people to the poor and crime infested side.

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There are 3 main settings:school, the 57 bus and the courthouse.The school is where Sasha interacts with friends and feels comfortable and accepted. The 57 bus is where the tragic fire occurred. The courthouse is where Richard spends a lot of time going through sentencing and such.

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Q:Did Sasha survive the fire?-Yes, she is fully healed and thriving in college.
Q:What happened to Richard?-He was sentenced to 5 years in a county penitentiary.
Q:Why is the guy called Sasha?-They prefer pronouns they/their and they like to wear skirts and anything they feel comfortable in

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These questions would be directed towards Sasha (he prefers the pronouns they/them which is what I reference).

Q:Are you completely okay?-this would give me a full response of how mentally Sasha dealt with the pain and media coverage.

Q:What is your relationship with Richard like today?-this explains what happened between them and Richard and if they stay together in a bond of understanding and support

Q:May I take a look at your legs?-this reassures me of the intensity and healing they experienced and whether or not there are scars

Q:What is your daily life like?-this would reassure me that she is fully healed and lives a normal life/doesn't perform any out of the ordinary tasks for her legs

Q:What are your future goals?-this curiosity would be satisfied by a filling answer and a description of her hobbies/passions

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I would definitely recommend this book to everyone. The main goal of the book is to express how times change and so should people. When people started changing their pronouns and dressing in a gender nonconforming manner, they shouldn't be judged. This book just shares a story of forgiveness, acceptance and love.

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This story takes place in third-person omniscient. Throughout the book the author knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters and refers to them by name. The author tells the story the way a movie would. She looks out on the character and writes in a way that is subjective to the reader

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One of the settings that takes place in the story is a courthouse. I relate to this place because I have been in the Mock Trial club for the past two years and have been in at least a dozen different courtrooms. For an FSU tournament we were in courtrooms that were on school grounds. This is a place I feel comfortable and curious about.

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1.Dashka Slater wrote "The 57 Bus" after hearing of the horrifying crime from her neighborhood email list.
2. Slater is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Salon, and Mother Jones. 3. She is a recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
4. She spent three years researching and writing The 57 Bus.
5. She has a son 6.  She wrote "The Wishing Box" (Chronicle), which was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times.
7. She lives in Oakland, California 8. She writes for both teenagers
/adults and children
9. Both of her parents are writers.
10. She reads Alice in Wonderland at least once a year.

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I'll admit that besides making a physical presentation, this is my favorite part. I personally love these songs and can see how closely they relate to being on Sasha's playlist. All three songs are by Shawn Mendes: Hold On, Never Be Alone and This Is What It Takes

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This reminds me of the movie “Lucy” with Scarlett Johansson where she is sucked into drug trafficking and gets drugs sewn into her body and it leaks into her, getting in her bloodstream. Ths drug enhances her so she can change her hair color just thinking about it and has super strength and can look into the worlds code strings. She is treated weird just because people haven’t seen anything like her before. Change is always negative at first with no real reason behind it. Just like Sasha, Lucy is treated as an outsider and as something that shouldn't exist. This connection of placement in society ties in Sasha's stance in the book and society being how Richard thought.

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This most intense part of the plot is when Richard does light Sasha's skirt on fire. The description of Richard with a couple friends on the bus looking to cause trouble and coming to an awful plan and the description of the lighter and its couple failed attempts just snags the reader. You sit there reading and being so absorbed into the text that you very clearly create a mental picture. The act of the skirt catching fire, some people giggling while others scream, and the description of Sasha's reaction is definitely the highest point in the story

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When Richard is being questioned by police after the fire and being arrested, he says he is homophobic. When you read this part you're thinking "that must be why he did it", but further into it the story Richard's thoughts are shown when he says he thinks being homophobic means liking girls and not guys. This is a twist because he uses the word of being hesitant towards people who enjoy their own gender, as being straight. This confusion of starting off as a sort of xenophobia turned out to be a misunderstanding.

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"I'm always okay with hugs,"they said. This was said by Sasha and it's very surprising because it was the first time they and their family had attended a court hearing for Richard, and at the end Richard's mother came up to hug each and every one of them while in tears and repeated apologies. I thought Sasha would resist and be reclusive against a hug from anyone associated with Richard, but she started to forgive and understand.

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"Give an alternate ending for the whole book

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"Give an alternate ending for the whole book

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There should be an intense build up of everything that happened before the fire. Being more intense than the book with every thought and slight image in both the heads of Richard and Sasha. Everything relating to Richard's background and life to see why he would think of lighting Sasha on fire and the same for Sasha. The end of the book would end with the click of the lighter in Richard's hand, but it never touches Sasha's skirt.

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-For teens and adults: ”The Wishing Box”
-For children a few include: ”Escargot”, ”The Antlered Ship”, and ”Dangerously Ever After”