Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey Paperback - 2003
by Rachel Simon
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).
Summary
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)
First line
"Wake up," my sister Beth says.
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- Title Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
- Author Rachel Simon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date August 26, 2003
- ISBN 9780452284555 / 0452284554
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.32 x 0.65 in (20.83 x 13.51 x 1.65 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Pennsylvania
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"An amazing book...a beautiful story of the ties that bind...It touched my soul." —Rosie O'Donnell
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