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Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
by Rachel Simon

Published: 2003-08-26
Paperback : 296 pages
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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 ...
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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).

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  "An Eye-opening Bus Ride!"by Janet B. (see profile) 06/25/12

Beth, who lives in an unspecified Pennsylvania city, suffers from mental handicaps. She is not employed but has created a social life for herself by riding the city buses all day. She has ... (read more)

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