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Dashka Slater’s The 57 Bus, a riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment, tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.

A New York Times Bestseller
Stonewall Book Award Winner–Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist

One teenager in a skirt.
One teenager with a lighter.
One moment that changes both of their lives forever.

If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one.

Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight.

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with Ted Stout 

For thousands of years people mostly avoided the lava fields of Idaho. Artifacts indicate that native people passed through, but they did not remain for long due to the lack of water. Later the trails that the Shoshone-Bannock created around the northern edge of the lava provided a path for Oregon bound migrants and ultimately highway motorists. Eventually curiosity about this unknown area led scientists and others to seek it out. In the 1920s, Robert Limbert explored the area and shared his adventures with a wider audience through his photography and writing. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge established Craters of the Moon National Monument, ushering in a new era of National Park Service management. Three other presidents expanded the boundary, leading to a much larger Monument and Preserve.

Ted Stout, author of the new book, Craters of the Moon National Monument, celebrates more than one hundred years of Craters of the Moon’s history with this engaging presentation. To illustrate the presentation, Stout draws extensively from park archives as well as collections at Boise State University, the USGS and other institutions.

This program will be livestreamed and recorded for later viewing. Vimeo link forthcoming. Books will be available for sale and a book signing will follow the program.

Ted Stout served as a park ranger from 1988-2020 at seven different national parks. He spent the last 17 years of his career as chief of interpretation and education at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. In 2022 his new pictorial guide to the one-hundred-year history of this national park was published.

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Make way for the elephant! You’ll need plenty of room in your heart for this lovable elephant. Excellent quality construction and attention to detail are obvious in this elephant’s tusks, wrinkled trunk, floppy ears, right down to its toenails. Just right for elephant-sized hugging!

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Gold Mine Consign has a wide and varied selection of high-end fashion and accessories for women. Proceeds from Gold Mine Consign support The Community Library. More about the Gold Mine stores here.

Check out this spring ensemble at Gold Mine Consign, featuring a Brixton checked dress ($40) and straw hat ($40). Step out in style this season with high-end apparel at low prices.

Gold Mine Consign has a wide and varied selection of designer fashion and accessories for women. Proceeds from Gold Mine Consign support The Community Library. More about the Gold Mine stores here.