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Riding the Bus with My Sister

Riding the Bus with My Sister

A True Life Journey

Rachel Simon - Author

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ISBN 9780452284555 | 304 pages | 26 Aug 2003 | Plume | 5.43 x 7.91in | 18 - AND UP
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Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her sister at long last—teaching her to slow down and enjoy the ride.

Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, Riding the Bus with My Sister is "a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life" (Boston Herald)

Riding the Bus with My Sister January
The Journey
The Time of Snows and Sorrow

February
Hitting the Road
The Professor
Fighting

March
The Pilgrim
Streetwise
Into Out There

April
The Dreamer
The Drivers' Room
The End of Play

May
Lunch with Jesse
Matchmaker
The Pursuit of Happiness

June
The Earth Mother
Disabilities
Goodbye

July
The Optimist
Break Shot
Gone

August
The Loner
Nowhere
Be Not Afraid
Inside the Tears

September
The Jester
Surgery
Releasing the Rebel

October
The Hunk
The Price of Being Human
Come Home, Little Girl

November
The Girlfriend
The Eighteenth Hole

December
Swans and Witches
Finding the Twin
Iz Gonna Be All Right

January
Beyond the Limits of the Sky

A Year and a Half Later
The Miracle Maker

"Clever and unsentimental" —The Philadelphia Inquirer

"An amazing book...a beautiful story of the ties that bind...It touched my soul." —Rosie O'Donnell


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