Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater Some YA nonfiction books are told through the comic format while others are told through scrapbook style formatting, allowing images and documents to pepper the prose. There are memoirs and biographies, histories of events or individuals who changed the course of those historical events, personal essay collections, and more. YA nonfiction covers everything topic-wise that adult nonfiction covers. What makes YA nonfiction books stand out is that they’re often on exciting or interesting topics and they’re written in the same style that makes YA fiction so appealing-it’s often shorter, cutting out some of the lengthier details in exchange for a tighter narrative and, perhaps what makes it most appealing to me, it encourages readers to seek out even more knowledge if the topic at hand excites them. It’s a category within the YA category that’s so often overlooked, but YA nonfiction is becoming stronger and stronger, with each year bringing even more compelling work. Highlighting nonfiction for teens is one of my passions.
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