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Analysis Of Riding The Bus With My Sister By Rachel Simon

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Rachel Simon is the author of six books; The Story of Beautiful Girl, The House On Teacher's Lane, Riding The Bus With My Sister, The Writer's Survival Guide, The Magic Touch, and Little Nightmares Little Dreams. In 2005, Hallmark Hall of Fame adapted Riding The Bus With My Sister for a film by the same name. It starred Rosie O'Donnell as Rachel's sister Beth and Andie MacDowell as Rachel, and it was directed by Anjelica Huston. Rachel is one of the only authors to have been selected twice for the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Program, once in fiction and once in nonfiction. She has received a Secretary Tommy G. Thompson’s Recognition Award from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, for contributions to the field of disability. She then attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating with a degree in Anthropology in 1981. Rachel's jobs have included being a community relations manager at a large bookstore, and a creative writing teacher at several colleges. She now makes her living as a writer and a speaker on topics related to disability.

Riding the Bus with My Sister is a memoir by Rachel Simon, published in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin about the time she spent with her sister Beth, who has a developmental disability, whose lifestyle revolves around riding buses in her home city. The memoir is about Simon's relationship with her sister Beth, who has an intellectual disability and who spends her days riding the fixed route buses in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania

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