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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Davidson, Craig.     Subjects     Students with disabilities -- Transportation -- Biography.     Children with disabilities -- Transportation -- Biography.     Children with disabilities -- Care -- Biography.     School children -- Transportation -- Biography.     School buses.     Bus drivers -- Canada -- Biography.     Authors, Canadian (English) -- 21st century -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Davidson, Craig.       by title:      Precious cargo : my ...       by call number:      371.9 D252p     Search the Web     Davidson, Craig.     Students with disabilities -- Transportation -- Biography.     Children with disabilities -- Transportation -- Biography.     Children with disabilities -- Care -- Biography.     School children -- Transportation -- Biography.     School buses.     Bus drivers -- Canada -- Biography.     Authors, Canadian (English) -- 21st century -- Biography.       MARC Display

Precious cargo : my year driving the kids on school bus 3077 / Craig Davidson. by Davidson, Craig. Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2016. Call #: 371.9 D252p Subjects Students with disabilities -- Transportation -- Biography.   Children with disabilities -- Transportation -- Biography.   Children with disabilities -- Care -- Biography.   School children -- Transportation -- Biography.   School buses.   Bus drivers -- Canada -- Biography.   Authors, Canadian (English) -- 21st century -- Biography. ISBN:  9780345810519 (pbk.) Description:  viii, 297 p. : ill.; 21 cm. Summary:  "With his novel, Cataract City, Craig Davidson established himself a talented novelist. But in his early thirties, Davidson experienced a period of poverty, apparent failure and despair. In this memoir, based loosely on an article he published in The Walrus, Davidson tells the story of one year in his life - a year during which he came to a new, mature understanding of his own life and his connection to others. One morning in 2008, desperate and impoverished and living in a one-room basement apartment while trying unsuccessfully to write, Davidson plucked a flyer out of his mailbox that read, "Bus Drivers Wanted." That was the first step towards an unlikely new career: driving a school bus full of special-needs kids for a year. Armed only with a sense of humour akin to that of his charges, a creative approach to the challenge of driving a large, awkward vehicle while corralling a rowdy gang of kids, and surprising but unsentimental reserves of empathy, Davidson takes us along for the ride. He shows us how his evolving relationship with the kids on that bus, each of them struggling physically as well as emotionally and socially, slowly but surely changed his life along with the lives of the "precious cargo" in his care. A moving story about how we see and treat people with special needs in our society. Craig Davidson has published four books of literary fiction, including Rust and Bone, which was made into the film of the same name, and Cataract City. He has also published thrillers and horror novels under the pseudonym Nick Cutter. He lives in Toronto."--Publisher's description. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 371.9 D252p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 371.9 D252p Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Rapid Reads 371.9 D252p Adult Rapid Reads Central weeding Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 371.9 D252p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 371.9 D252p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 371.9 D252p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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