Mooney is on the Money

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	• The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal Jonathan Mooney Holt Paperbacks, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Grateful!

So thrilled to have randomly come across such an entertaining, inspiring, and truly engrossing story that is both refreshingly honest and open heartedly spiritual, (in the best sense of the word.) The message of unconditional love and acceptance for those different then ourselves, while acknowledging his own and society's past shortcomings in this regard, needs to be heard! A hoot besides: despite my own unique wiring, I zipped through the book- allowing no distractions and laughing heartily all the way. from Suzi in Rye, NH

Incredibly Insightful

This book is full of compassion and insight for those that Jonathan visits with and writes about. His honesty will challenge you to deal with your own preconceived ideas and stereotypes. You can not read it and not get real with yourself.

Jonathan's humor and honesty are what makes this book possible. There are not that many people that would be invited into the homes and lives of all the people that you will meet in his journey. The various personalities all mesh together to create a thought provoking story that will draw you in and not only entertain you immensely but educate in you ways that we all need to be educated.

Thank you Mr. Mooney for writing this book!

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Mooney is on the Money

I picked up this book almost as an afterthought. The topic looked interesting and I thought it would make a good quick read...instead I was enthralled with each story and found that after every chapter I needed to take a little time to digest what I had read.

The Short Bus is an excellent read...a story of a journey for one man to understand himself through traveling in the very symbol of his own "imprisonment" He gains insights which come from looking at and examining the idiosyncrasies in the lives of others. Mooney is honest about himself..his own prejudices and judgements..each story enlightened me about various learning disabilities..and demonstrated how categorizing can easily limit people or cause them to be ostracized. While I felt saddened by the treatment of many of the people Mooney visits, none of them caused me to feel anything but hope and amazement at the power of the human spirit to survive. Mooney is insightful and humorous while honoring each of his stories with truth and compassion.

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?What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney?s transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of it, make it into something beautiful.??Los Angeles Times

Labeled ?dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled,? Jonathan Mooney was a short-bus rider?a derogatory term used for kids in special education. To learn how others had moved beyond labels, he bought his own short bus and set out cross-country, looking for kids who had dreamed up magical, beautiful ways to overcome the obstacles that separated them from the so-called normal world.

The Short Bus is his irreverent and poignant record of that odyssey, meeting thirteen people in thirteen states who taught Mooney that there?s no such thing as normal?and that to really live, every person must find their own special way of keeping on. The Short Bus is a unique gem, propelled by Mooney?s heart, humor, and outrageous rebellions.

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