I led the way to the main road, where buses to and from the city roared through our village. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I felt angry that blacks were not allowed to sit with whites in bus stations. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Of course my whole family has to escort me to Times Square at the crack of dawn, where I’ll be hopping on a six-o’clock bus to D.C. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We watch the pretzel girl a little longer, but then Mama looks at her watch, taps the table, and tells us we gotta catch the bus back. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The school bus left George at the corner and drove off, its engine straining to pick up speed. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He hung around watching the nest for so long that he almost missed the school bus. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart nearly burst out of my chest as I spotted Evan waiting for me by the bus circle. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A few kids came up when the bus stopped, and a customs officer for the town made all the people getting down from the bus open their bundles on the sidewalk. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Besides, he had to get Bri to St. Benedict’s before the bus left for the convent, and it would be a long walk there from the school. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I... saw,” I say, thinking a the bus. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A thin boy, wearing a Malcolm X T-shirt and sporting a DIY haircut, sat up from where he’d once been sprawled by a gaping hole in the side of the bus. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the morning I bought three tickets for the bus to Burguete. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Just before I climbed aboard the bus, I was happy to see Jake roll up in his Corvette. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bus stop is on the corner of the local park, so there's a lot of space for all of us to spread out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was the bus driver, shouting, “Get up from there! Get up from there!” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Eleanor hoped that Park would be waiting for her at the bus stop, but she wouldn't blame him if he wasn't. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You threw your own people under the bus. You’re as bad as the Director. Worse.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I can feel her eyes on us as Bryce and then Aurora start spilling down the bus steps. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

After that, Sasha would walk across the street to pick up the first of two buses that would take them home. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even the tiniest of us knew the subway and local city bus schedules and routes by heart. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't find out about the bus rules until Grandma needed to get a medical prescription filled downtown one day and our car stalled out. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The seven o’clock bus for blacks to Johannesburg was jam-packed with men and women on their way to the white world to work. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, look on the bright side. If it’s too bad to go sledding today, it’ll probably be too bad for the buses tomorrow morning. Bet you’ll have a snow day.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had sighed and jittered my knees up down up down up down so our seats shook, because I hated being on the bus. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I push the door open and walk into the hallway, but it isn’t a hallway; it’s a bus, and all the seats are taken. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Doris Lyon sat with a girlfriend in a seat just in front of the rear side door in a nearly empty bus. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to get him to the bus!” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Every driver understood from the day he was hired that his main job, other than driving the bus, was to enforce the Jim Crow rules. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Charlie wore a gray sweatshirt with an oily stain on the sleeve, and his mother argued with him the whole way to the bus stop. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He considered shooting a column of fire at the nearest tour bus and blowing up the gas tank, but he decided that might be a tad dramatic. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

An older woman who wanted to talk to the bus driver about her route. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The team and the cheerleaders rode the same bus. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I ride the bus with him,” Roy said, and decided to recycle Beatrice’s line one more time: “We’re doing a science project together.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an instant, an unconditional silence filled the bus, cutting off from the Chief any alternative but to take up his narrating position. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And in the story that begins from the song, the bus is no longer a bus and we're no longer going to Dannemora. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

For now, both teenagers are just taking the bus home from school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most of the children go home for lunch, it’s only the school bus ones that have to stay. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Curtis tosses a water bottle all the way to the back of the bus. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, the bus would go from complex to complex to pick the players up. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The air hummed with voices, distant motors, and the muffled droning of the loudspeaker announcing what buses were leaving for what cities. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he asked Richard to go through the events on the bus again. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the bus, Windy asks, “Did you come up with any ideas for our project?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

George took the steep steps onto her own bus and shuffled along the narrow corridor, her feet sticking to the rubbery floor. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

My stomach has been grumbling since we got off the bus, and I feel my hangriness coming on. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The bus gets you home fast, and I don't want that. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was so deep in my memory that I hardly noticed the bus pull over in front of a little hotel and cafe by the side of the road. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Two blocks before Canal, the bus makes a left turn off Claiborne. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After one particularly violent incident, my seven-year-old dad took the bus to fetch his father at work so that he could hurry home and tend to my grandmother's bloody wounds. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

By the time the bus got to Welland Cross, fog was closing in thick. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The bus was like Pa said it would be. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mami walked her to the bus stop for her first month at her new school over in the next parish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I turn away from the line of kids getting on the bus. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Look, kid, you came in here and asked me for a ticket. I gave you one on the next bus.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Often a group 265 of meerkats will take the stance collectively, standing in a huddle and gazing in the same direction, looking like commuters waiting for a bus. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Basin cars, and basin buses still whizzed around. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving, she realized she had just missed the nine p.m. bus. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone expected him to get straight As his first semester, but for someone who had lived in a bus or on a boat for the last ten years, there were too many distractions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We were back in San Jose again, at the bus station, standing next to the Coke machine talking about what we were gonna do. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand. You’ve been nice to me since day 1 on the bus. Which makes no sense at all. Especially when I kept a secret from you for weeks.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care that he could drive a bus or plan a dance. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It took two buses to carry the eighty band members and our equipment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I head back to the bus stop and think about what I did today—and what I need to do next. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

For some reason, the bus came early that morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’d just wished Anna a great summer and watched her head out of the classroom to catch her bus when Mr. Terupt said, “Danielle, I see your mother walking across the parking lot.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She went back inside the bus depot and called her friend. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After the school bus drops me off, I zip up my jacket and walk as quick as I can along the shoulder of Route 3. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When the bus finally got to Court Street, and I stood up to get off, Noodles didn't move. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We dispatched men to strategic places around the townships to watch the trains, buses, and taxis in order to determine whether or not people were going to work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Gates repeated this speech twice more as I worked my way out the front door and turned left to my bus stop. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The loudest kids get on our bus first. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, he boarded the bus, walked to the back, said "Good morning" just as he always did and said nothing for the rest of the way. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Full of people I never saw before, waiting for buses, pushing strollers. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a masterpiece that everyone pretends to understand. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Besides, everything is far away and there aren’t any sidewalks or buses. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her husband, French Wilson, had found a job at the Central Leaf Tobacco factory and had sent for her and the baby, enclosing a one-way bus ticket along with his letter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They spend a few weekends taking the shuttle bus to Ikea and filling up the rooms: imitation Noguchi lamps, a black sectional sofa, kilim and flokati carpets, a blond wood platform bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walk home from the bus stop with Brad. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That very day I started setting aside money for the bus fare to Boston. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stomach was sensitive to the slightest movement and the lurching of the bus caused strange reactions in his body. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold climbed onto a bus with the plans for an atomic bomb in his travel bag. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jo Ann Robinson, E. D. Nixon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others continued to meet with city and bus officials, consistently pressing for black drivers, courteous treatment, and a revised seating plan. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Life on the bus alternated between moments of harmony and moments of chaos. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s a teacher at school who will drive me to Bryce and Aurora’s bus stop, but that doesn’t help me pick up Hector.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We bump along, and after a short ride, the bus stops at a curb. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Necessity being the mother of invention, black people created their own transit system, an informal network of bus routes, controlled by private associations operating entirely outside the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Carla dreaded being asked directions since she had just moved into this area right before school started, and all she knew for sure was the route home from the bus stop. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He changed buses, continually hanging on the back, until he reached Jerusalem. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The bus was like one we’d seen in San Francisco painted with daisies, peace signs, and Flower Power written in groovy colors. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

McDonald, a widow and housekeeper for her son, said she was “often mistreated” on the bus and quit riding to support the boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

We rode home in the bus, sulking in our separate seats. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was driving me to the black bus stop following a practise session; Saturday morning traffic was heavy; he pulled into a parking lot of a Hypermarket to continue his American saga. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like steel bus rails and the smell of the bus conductor’s hands from holding them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There it is!” someone in the bus shouted. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They were coming up to the bridge, the tall one they crossed on the bus ride to school every morning. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond the bus is rubble as far as I can see. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he said that, the bus turned the corner and pulled up to the stop, so I was saved from having to respond. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I stood there for another half a minute or so, just nodding, waiting for an eastbound bus when she knew I was headed for the west side. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I pan the camera from left to right, capturing the entire class as they mill around and start to pile into the buses. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I remained standing in the bus shelter, watching the black outline of an osprey slowly crossing the sky to its nest. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I can’t call her, I take the bus back on weekends. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a court of law, all judges, all jury. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Robinson longed to do something about the buses, but she didn’t know quite what. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I pushed myself into the cold metal seafoam green bus wall so hard I could feel the rivets press into my arm. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking that I’ll get laughed at the minute I step off the bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She's home. night bus My father arrives on a night bus, his hat in his hands. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then walk down to Commerce Street and get on the New Jersey Transit bus, which’ll take me right to Route 513. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She said, “Let’s get off this bus and on the train, and I’ll tell you about it.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all the tenants from Tres Marias made the trip by bus or train, some for the first time in their lives, to say goodbye to her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the entire operation, this bus station-turned-military base, had been arranged for them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Wait. Say it again. You were on the bus and what happened?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The fight had changed something on the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She smiles at the bus driver so he doesn’t suspect anything. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We were not the first bus through—that had come a year before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Deon’s a junior too, but since he’s in the music program, I only ever see him on the bus. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We were taken in school buses on field trips to visit Plymouth Rock, and to walk the Freedom Trail, and to climb to the top of the Bunker Hill Monument. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

As we passed the bus station, I dropped out of the little group and sat on a public bench near an outside phone booth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurdled flowers and stuffed animals, pounding down the brick-laid sidewalk until they reached a wall of people lining up to board a bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bus pulls away from the trailer park and starts heading down the street, where practically every house has a big yard, and some even have a swing set in back. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Some just sit there, in the way of the buses and cars. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When the bus pulled into the terminal, I collected my suitcase and walked to the middle of the station. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you take the late bus? I want to show you something.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel must be across town, at Tegucigalpa’s main bus station, at 3:30 P.M. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I glance at the Greyhound bus schedule I grabbed in Pittsburgh. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Just started searching the ground for a rock or something to throw, but the bus moved on. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bus chugged and groaned up the winding road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The children ran out to the road and climbed into the bus. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Today, I’m actually looking forward to getting on the bus. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But many years later one writer noticed something peculiar about that first bus ride. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The last groups of four were being lifted off the bus and dropped onto the ground, including the boy with the broken face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Out the bus window, the air is somewhere between black and brown and gray. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shoved the comic between her books like it was something secret, then got off the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One of the cops jumped out of his cruiser and ran to the bus waiting there, a bus heading south to Oregon. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Just before his mother, who lived in Montgomery, was summoned to help persuade him to go to a hospital, George boarded a Greyhound bus in the middle of the night. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then we piled into a bus along with our coaches and trainers and drove almost an hour to the compound where the athletes would stay. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Three kids from Roy’s grade got on the bus and, upon spotting Dana, wisely scrambled for seats up front. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, from the school bus windows, she would see other wild girls on the edges of the cornfields, running without shoes, hair unkempt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was thinking, It’s the bus driver’s job to ask, and to ask politely. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As the bus headed for Conakry, I began to worry, since I didn’t actually know what to do once I got there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I sat back with a sigh of relief, yet once the passengers were aboard and the bus under way again, I felt sad and utterly alone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

To supplement his teacher’s salary, he also drove a school bus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how I would know that he was ready to leave for the bus stop. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students walked for miles to get to the school or took their chances each morning in barely roadworthy buses that made the rounds in the outer reaches of Prince Edward County. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When I’m finally on my way to my own bus stop, I see Silas come around the corner of his trailer. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We know how to act on a bus trip.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You can take the bus back, or, Mo, why don’t you drive up on your own?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then Miss Kenton pointed out a bus shelter visible further up the road. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere there are signs for city buses and subway trains, going every which way. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman left the diner/bus station with a small satchel of shaving things and walked out into the streets of Danville, Pennsylvania. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other people on the bus are mostly workers on their way home. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As the bus pulled away, we saw a crowd gathered at the curb. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning after he came barreling into town, Fred bought Day a bus ticket to Baltimore. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stand behind the bus and take a peek at my mother in the park. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We were going at last and I took a last longing look as the bus shot around the highway which circled the school. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus bounced along like an empty cracker box on wheels—almost empty. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I head toward the main street, which I recognize from my bus route. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

This appeased the white bus driver, for after unleashing a tirade of how stupid and uncivilized black people were, he returned to the bus and drove off. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one bus stood waiting, now that the one they had ridden on had gone on to Baltimore. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing it on her phone my first time at the bus stop. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Finally she had managed to borrow a crumbling bus route map dated 1926. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That feeling she used to have when she was sitting next to Park on the bus—that feeling that she was on base, that she was safe for the moment—she could summon it now. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Standing with his suitcase like an orphan waiting for a bus. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The kids still on the bus lit up with excitement. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

No longer would he have to show up at the large parking lot on Sunday evenings waiting for the blue bus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He waved her over to a policeman who stood just outside the door of the bus station. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The following Monday on the way to the bus stop, I had mentioned this to Branwell and asked him if he thought you could say the man actually wrote the book. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They exited through the back door and jumped to the sidewalk, and the bus whirred away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The success of the Montgomery bus boycott encouraged growing numbers of civil rights activists, black and white, to challenge laws that enforced segregation. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twelve, so he would go on the bus to town. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Due to busing and an outbreak in gang activity, Wilson’s traditional white, upper-class demographics have changed radically. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We were so frozen with shock, nobody noticed that the bus was moving, inching forward into oncoming traffic. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t sit on the front of the bus; we couldn’t swim in their pool, attend their schools, or go to their movie theaters. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bus began to move again, causing the driver to look at Mrs. Sen and Eliot in his enormous rearview mirror. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Balancing her textbooks on her lap, Claudette settled back and gazed absently out the window as the bus pulled away from the curb. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

When you sat next to her in the bus, she smelled of a wonderful perfume. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“The bus will be here soon. You need to get up and get dressed.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"That's because people don't stand at bus stops waiting forever," the girl says. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I liked driving with Mom or Dad in the tiny, private space of our car, and the bus felt wide and open and crawling with other people’s lives. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The bus pulled up to the curb outside school and Charlie told me how. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stanley wasn't sure if the bus driver meant for him to be careful going down the steps, or if he was telling him to be careful at Camp Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The Chief climbed into the bus only after we had settled down. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

As the bus pulled up, I could feel a flood of tears forming in my eyes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The first day with Mr. Daniels starts out okay because we have math in the morning and Mr. Daniels does this thing he calls the bus driver. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I pause for a moment but then leave to catch up with Soojin and Emily at our lockers before I head to the bus line. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Our bus driver is not the friendliest man. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from the stadium, they pulled into the crescent-shaped driveway of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, where incoming and outgoing Amtrak trains and Greyhound buses docked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So he begged his father for bread, received two hundred dollars by return mail, and, early one morning, he clambered joyfully aboard a Trailways bus bound for the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the bus lanes, the old green truck pulled up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They quit sitting next to me on the bus too, and Rufus didn’t show up that night to play. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky stretches long and wide, and maybe this bus can go to the very edge of the world—or at least to my mother in New Jersey. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I looked over toward the bus lanes and saw a white van pulling in. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second, a newspaper cartoonist who knew her father, had been hit by a bus in Esplanade and lost his left arm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the woman reaches up to her cheek, the boy breaks free, pushes against anyone standing in his way, and starts running back toward the main gate, where the buses entered. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We pass a public bus, with people jammed in so tight their faces are nearly wedged against the window. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged herself to the bus stop, through the day, and back home again. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Are there any actual Junior Undertakers on this bus?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I drink a glass of water, take a shower, get dressed, and leave by six thirty so I can get to the bus. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One day at a bus stop, an older woman approached Sasha. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There should have been a quarter moon, for what that’s worth, but the sky was overcast, and we were blind until the prison bus turned up with its headlights blazing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I wish I had a few dollars for a cup of hot chocolate, but I barely have enough to get back on the bus. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the bus ride home I asked Luke, “What did you tell the lady who came today?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, members of the Midland High team arrived home by bus from Abilene. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some buses are honking already, and a few cyclists are tinkling their bells, but the city isn't all woken up yet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing familiar, not a traffic clog of yellow rusted buses or a water-logged slum of zinc shacks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Ashford, folks,” the driver called out, opening the bus door and killing the engine. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Jack slowed down to a crawl at each of these, blowing the bus horn and then easing us around. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In March of 1943 I joined over sixty other Navajo Indians who took the bus from Fort Defiance to Fort Wingate to be sworn in. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you stop riding the buses on December fifth?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He came to see the only survivor from the bus crash, and when he learned that Mrs. Cadaver had been sitting next to my mother, they started talking about her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They gave me strange looks, wondering what this white boy was doing on the bus with them. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

No school bus could ever make it up the rutted, snaking dirt road that led to Garland. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then she was in a freak accident: a teenager on the bus attacked her, throwing himself on top of her, biting and scratching until two men ran onto the bus and pulled him off. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The bus slows down for its next stop, and I peer through the wet window to see Matt Hubbard waiting up ahead. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Another day, a dark-faced old woman—her hand light on my shoulder—steadied herself against me as she boarded a bus. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I continued to stare out the window as the bus rolled down Gramercy Road. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

While Dorothy walked several blocks each morning from the Lucys’ house to the bus, the women at the dormitory enjoyed special bus service. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I need to find out more about those buses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning on the bus, Eleanor asked him what his big, secret errand was, and he handed her his license. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The two women from the bus walk along the road. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She waited for the bus, wondering whether to go home or somewhere else to wait for a while. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The cop nodded and walked back toward his cruiser, where he met his partner coming back from the bus. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At 3 p.m., those of us who signed up for the Rachel Carson Day trash removal project line up to board the bus that will take us to the cleanup site. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I took the early afternoon bus for Tuskegee, walked through a Southern town of great beauty and tranquility. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were too young to know that the bus driver didn’t care about our song. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We bought hamburgers for supper and took the bus to his home, eating on the way. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had electric torches—both men walked up and down the length of the bus inspecting the damage and cursing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The large bus station was crowded with humanity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we pulled in for our stop in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the bus driver refused to let me retrieve my other books from my suitcase, no matter how politely I asked. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mabel and I have boarded buses together thousands of times, but when the bus appears in the distance it's entirely unfamiliar. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I checked the mailbox every afternoon as soon as I got off the bus and felt disappointed each time there was nothing for me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had a loving and orderly home, bus fare to get me across town to school, and a hot meal to come home to at night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After the train, Gordievsky switched to a taxi, and then—for the final leg of his solo journey—to a bus. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they had been stripped to ensure that they hadn’t stolen anything, and now, deemed clean, they were being sent away on a bus? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In a trance of fear, dazed yet trembling, I proceeded onto the dark bus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mama and my older brothers had succeeded in keeping most of us together, on the same bus, headed for the same camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to sleep when the bus finally pulls away, but the man in front of me is snoring so loudly he wakes himself up every few minutes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Trained not to wait more than five minutes, she walked back to the bus stop and returned to Las Vegas. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy, it looks like you’ll just have to get back on that bus and try your luck down the highway.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids were bused in from way up in the hollows and from coal camps such as Davy and Hemphill that were too small to have their own high school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He walked me to an emergency exit and pointed to a fancy RV parked across five spaces in the roped-off parking lot, the same tour bus from Main Street. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

While we waited for the radiator to cool, some players sat in the bus and slept, some of us went out and played catch on the highway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But reality came in the venom the white bus driver was spitting as he reached for the side door to come after me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll stay in Montreal a couple of days. Sell the car. Then take the bus to, I don’t know, Saskatchewan or something. We’ll go to the weirdest place we can find.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Audrey sighed and sat on the brick wall of the decorative fountain near the bus stop. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Passengers jostled past him and climbed onto the bus, eager to get home. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

You jerked awake as the bus thudded to a halt. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The soldier and I got Lucas down from the bus. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On my way to the bus stop the next morning, I see Silas coming out of his trailer. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The doors closed with a hiss, and the bus moved on. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But to Canton, a school bus is also a cannonball. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

My legs were still jelly from the run to catch the bus. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A small rag doll covered with what looked like blood was trapped under one of the bus’ front wheels. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it dawned on me that I had told Joey about the Gatorade bottle when we were on the bus coming back to Pine Mountain from Salem. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I figure there’s probably something wrong with a guy if he can’t even afford a bus ticket. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, Abby’s stuck at school until the late bus leaves, and I feel really terrible about that. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When schools opened again, kids ran in groups and made snowballs, which they then threw at passing buses, or at each other. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Chess and Emma followed, as Ms. Morales answered Natalie, “For your information, young lady, I was working right up until I had to pick you up from school. Would you have preferred taking the bus?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, how would she hire a cab or board a bus without money? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning when it was still dark we got all cleaned up and I dressed in my old jeans and a Penn State T-shirt for the bus ride. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both fell in love with riding the bus. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Can you meet me at the bus stop? I told my grandparents you’d meet me and walk me back.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bus was a little late, and Mr. Haskell skidded the back tires in the new snow when he stopped for us. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I told him about the time one of The Children’s Home kids had terrorized a bus and the police had to rescue us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At the bus stop I always tell him, “You have your umbrella,” grabbing the back of his jacket to keep him from following Ryan’s friends up the steps. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone at Epiphany Middle School was to be transported to the high school by bus. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I walk to the bus, I watch a helicopter fly toward downtown until it disappears into a tiny black speck. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And it was all because he had to go check the stuff in the bus station, all because he was stuck with the stuff now for two hours every afternoon. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin started to look for work when he arrived in Chengdu, a destination he had picked randomly at the bus station in Beijing. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to find the aqueducts,” Alyssa interjects, “or just snipe at each other until they put us on a death bus to nowhere?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At six in the morning, we were all on the bus heading down from Pine Mountain to play our first rugby match of the year. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As I passed a nearby bus stop, I noticed out of the corner of my eye a lovely young woman waiting for the bus. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bus arrived at school, Hazel gathered her things slowly, waiting for everyone else to get off. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As the bus grew quiet, as everyone began to fall asleep, she had let him lean his head against her shoulder. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he set it on the small wooden table near the wood-burning stove in the back of the bus, Toomer discarded the moss through an open window and revealed a bushel of single oysters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were not on the bus route, and it was a bit of a hike to school, but none of us minded the walk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings their dark bodies fill the crosstown buses, taking them away from Nicholtown to the other side of Greenville where the white people live. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

George jerked back and tried to head to her bus. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But before my eyes could drop shut, the driver turned and looked right at me and growled through his teeth, “I know what you’re doing, kid. Get off my bus. Now.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The tiny children line up to get on the school bus. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The bus was a sad carcass of rusted metal, shattered windows replaced with black garbage bags, balding tires, and upholstery shredded down to the springs. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They rest on the bus, recharging for the road ahead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I swallow those thoughts, watch the passengers exit the bus, and then I see Sam getting off at the back, smiling her Sam-smile. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

None of the roads had been plowed yet, but enough buses had come down Lee Avenue that it was packed hard and slick. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They had both taken care to avoid each other since that day when Antonapoulos left on the bus. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had always hoped to win honor on the force, but what honor was there in dying of pneumonia in a bus station rest room? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning, she arrived early by bus and streetcar from her nearby village to brew the coffee, filling the apartment with its strong aroma. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Granny, I swear I didn’t know. I had never seen white people riding buses before, so when I heard this bus coming, I thought it was ours.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember you, too! I made my mom drive me the last couple of days. I hate the school bus.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

An advertisement on a bus stop says, “Don’t you want a Whopper?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Following the bus was a nightmare; it stopped too often, too long, and it was difficult to tail it, hide, and watch to see if she got off. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our bus pushed out of poor and black Oakland, where lines formed for free breakfasts and men stood around because there were no jobs and too much liquor. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning as we were getting ready for our trip back to Mexico, I went outside and watched the school bus pick up kids from the ranch. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone was fanning themselves and wiping sweat, frustrated, trapped on the bus from hell. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her brown paper shopping bag against her, she dozed under the fluorescent lights until her sister’s bus pulled into the terminal. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized some of the people from the shuttle bus and tried to avoid eye contact. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I high-fived my way off the school bus, slapping hands on both sides of the aisle. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The teachers call it “the troublesome bus,” because the kids are so bad a substitute driver once stopped in the middle of the route, shouted that we were all hooligans, and walked out. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I think to go to the bus station.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I could catch the city bus across the street from the Behavioral Center, at the stop where Morris and I had had our talk. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her it was out beyond the bus station, and he took the time to be sure she understood his directions, even though there was a line of people behind her waiting to pay. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mai loaded her backpack with new books from the school library and walked to the bus stop. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We enter downtown and Book Girl is still on the bus. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bus pulls up and we allow everyone else to get on first before boarding. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And each morning, I walk to the bus disappointed. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Me too! See you guys on the bus!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They don’t plan on making me take the bus. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

No brownstones with the cement stoops where you could watch the buses, ice cream trucks, and taxis ride by. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She closed the window and gave me a sad little smile and the bus pulled out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once, for example, he and Duma Nokwe flew on the same plane from Durban to Johannesburg, and when the airline bus to town refused to take Duma, Kennedy refused to ride in it as well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the rule—that you didn’t have to get up for a white person if there were no empty seats left on the bus—and there weren’t. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He always sat in the middle section of a bus, which he believed was much safer than the front or back. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I ride the bus, 1 simply roll down our ramp, down the driveway, onto the bus lift, and into a specially designed area of the bus that straps my chair into place. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Bitterness dissolved in our delight to give the bus driver and the bus as good as they deserved. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at Tallebudgera we scampered off the bus, grabbed our sleeping bags and clothes, and walked across the patchy grass to the shabby huts that were home for the duration. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, I walk down the steps, through the parking lot, and past the bus stop at the end of the street. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One after another, buses stopped at the corner and a short parade of men and women climbed off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any idea how many times she borrowed my car?” he rants on the bus ride to school. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I glare out the bus window as we pull out of the school parking lot. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of the shuttle bus driver who figured I was a thief but who was going to stop on his own time and give me a ride home. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I need a good laugh,” he’d said just after getting on the bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We’d turn up at the Ex-Services Bowls Club every week and bowl our hearts out for an hour or so before we were packed back onto the bus and sent home. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

For everyone else on the bus, it was the first snow of the season, but for Frankie and me, it was the first one of our lives. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

My mom and I then accompanied the girls in what would become their new form of school bus—a black SUV with smoked windows made of bulletproof glass. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Coach stood to address us from the front of the bus. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The last of the passengers steps down, and the bus doors clamp shut. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The following Tuesday, as he drove downtown to the bus station to pick up some game films of the team’s final opponent, the San Angelo Central Bobcats, he was still grappling with the loss. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he wished he had not checked it under the bus, for he wanted a drink right then. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t shower, just got on the bus smelling funky and feeling worse. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the house would be right there when I got off the bus, but, boy, was I wrong. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Someone stole a bus and rammed it through the walls.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dropping their school stuff off at their apartments, grabbing snacks, and getting permission to go downtown, Emily and James found themselves riding the bus to the financial district. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He cannot slide down the aisles of buses, counting change and selling tickets. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bus is a typical example of a vehicle, so the backward association from vehicle to bus is effortless. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She studied the windows as the bus passed, smiling if she saw me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I left the store to walk downtown to the bus station, Mameh handed me a bag lunch and kissed me and I was out the door and gone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people asked us for bus fare. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It also didn’t matter that the city bus law—or ordinance, as city laws are called—had said since 1900 that no rider had to give up a seat unless another was available. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Even though Alex was early, the line for his bus was already thirty people long. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the bus Mami told me how tall the buildings were in New York, and how she had traveled around on trains that were much faster and nicer than our crowded, stuffy buses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bus was still lodged inside the welfare office’s walls, smouldering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because if I don’t get on the bus, and then for some reason you can’t...” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Red buses and beetle-black taxis crawled through traffic on narrow streets. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It was the Matherson boy,” Mrs. Eberhardt cut in excitedly, “the one who attacked you on the bus. And he tried to convince the police he was you!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I take the bus home, because Tiny is busy at the student council meeting. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

After the school bus dropped him off, he ran home and fixed himself a peanut-butter sandwich. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I peer down the highway where the rising sun flashes on the windows of the endless line of trucks and buses and cars. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jack had to remind me to get off at my bus stop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Look at that. A school bus falling from the sky." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bus turned the corner and heaved to a stop. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Soon as we got back down to the beach with a big bag of Mexican food I told Rondell: “In a couple more days, man, me and you are takin’ a bus up to Fresno.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In an hour of driving, he saw a total of only eight black passengers on the buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He gave me the goofiest smile and said, “Sorry, Maleeka...,” and moved to the front of the bus with his boys. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

She warns me to be careful not to fall asleep on the bus, though, or else I’ll miss my stop. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And then a picture of Mark, hat on and smiling, with the world out a bus window behind him. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The next bus started to come down Lee Avenue. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

For all I knew, he stepped off that bus every afternoon and was whooshed into Dimension X—which might have explained a thing or two about his personality. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Leaflets, stickers, and posters were printed and circulated and posted in trains and buses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was really happy that first day back because the special-ed bus didn’t stop at my front door anymore. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surviving guard leaped back into the bus. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With the 30 pesos he has left, he takes a bus that winds into the city. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Instead of hopping on the school bus with Omar, the next day Clayton found himself waiting to speak to Pastor Early. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He plodded onward and soon he reached the bus stop where he’d first spotted the running boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved discreetly away from her, crossing his legs and wishing that he could smoke on the bus. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light poles are like palm trees, bus stop benches like hammocks, and corner stores like island bungalows. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

On the day that Epiphany Middle School was invited to attend Annie, Mrs. Olinski had driven her van to the high school and had arrived ahead of the school bus. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the bus ride home, Emily flipped through The Maltese Falcon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

An old lady had just boarded the bus. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of ripe guavas, piled high on a handcart pushed by a vendor, mixed with the smell of diesel smoke from buses. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t stop until I was back at the bus station, back on the 164 heading home. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He promised he would not let anyone harass me on the school bus, which I appreciated until he showed me a knife he had hidden in his backpack. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the passengers had dispersed by now, but a few lingered with the driver on the sidewalk beside the empty bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then no matter how hard the late kid banged on the side of the bus the driver would just take off, laughing out of the window. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get on the bus, I think about how proud Mr. Flores would be. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Roy knew the rules against fighting on the bus, but he couldn’t think of anything else to do. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erik and his friends laughed about the joke, then the bus doors opened and we all filed in. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At our first rest stop, only forty miles into the voyage, a man follows me off the bus and into the bathroom, standing right next to me at a urinal. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Trucks, vans, and buses line the dusty highway winding through the brown hills. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I peered over the rail, looking for the bus that I knew was still somewhere down there on the side of the mountain, but I couldn’t see it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She had come home for Christmas, and true to his word, he’d come to pick her up at the bus station in the little tan VW Rabbit he’d bought that fall. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ran after that little bus for, like, half a mile, and the dirt from the country mixed with my sweat is now caked all over my body and feet. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We roared back down the mountainside on motorbikes, and a bus eventually rolled up, crowded with dozens of people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Since 1953 this act had enforced what was known as “petty apartheid,” segregating parks, theaters, restaurants, buses, libraries, toilets, and other public facilities, according to race. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paying my bill, I left the bus terminal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But as I hop off the bus, he’s not waiting for me at the bottom of the steps. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But not walking her wouldn’t be fair; it wasn’t her fault I couldn’t take the bus. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She told of having been made to stand up by a bus driver so that whites could sit down. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I figured it was the best offer I would get, so I stepped out from behind the school bus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We caught a bus and went a few kilometers outside Algiers, to a beach with rocks at either end, bordered by shore grass on the land side. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He ran another three uphill miles after the bus that took the delivery boy to the hospital entrance. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we’re going to catch the 1:23 bus, we have to go now. And we have to run.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By then Brian had moved into a walk-up near the Port Authority bus terminal, and using his address, we enrolled Maureen in a good public school in Manhattan. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock there were about fifty prisoners at the bus station, but Zeitoun’s cage was still the only one with its own dedicated guard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“But we don’t need the whole world worrying about kids riding on a bus without an adult.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He climbed aboard, dropped his token in the coin box and lurched to his seat as the bus moved away from the curb. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our small explosion hurt no one except the bridge and the bus. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

How can they even get on a bus? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Taxis are for Josef; I’m used to going everywhere on buses and streetcars, and the subway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No bus station. No taxis. No car rental. No way out.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when Eleanor got on the bus, there was a stack of comics on her seat. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Phoebe was like that all the way home on the bus. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Packing their bags, climbing aboard a bus, leaving behind all this violence, going to find blessings, or trouble, and whichever came they would face it together. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Exclusion Guards at the gate entrance clear the drivers after a visual inspection of the inside, outside, and underside of the buses. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Said he needed the money for a bus ticket. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She approached the bus stop with her eyes focused on the ground ahead of her, because footprints were very interesting and should be studied closely. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But on the bus after school, his mood is completely different. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely fine. You have each other. Oh, look! There’s the bus! Hurry!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When the bus got to Howard’s house, he grabbed his backpack and said, “Remember. Pineapple.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He literally flung himself around in his seat, yanked the operating handle of the door, and a girl in a beaver coat climbed into the bus. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The Reverend Ralph Abernathy took the pulpit and read a resolution asking that all citizens refrain from riding buses operated by Montgomery City Lines, Inc. “All in favor of the motion, stand,” Abernathy said. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He said: “Last year in the United States, we had 56,000 deaths as a result of car accidents, and I decided I’d rather use buses.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have to stay with the bus driver for the next twenty-eight days. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, but hurry. I don’t want to miss the bus on the first day of school.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I want to ask him what happened with his mom and who his favorite teacher was and if he took the bus or if his parents gave him rides every morning. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When I get close to the bus stop, I notice three different groups of kids. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She knew which bus number to take downtown. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The guys in the bus erupted in laughter. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I reached across the aisle of the school bus and took what Cletus was handing me. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember hearing the air brakes, and someone yelling “Mr. Hoodhood,” and the “Oh” that came out of my sister when I hit her just ahead of the sliding school bus. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mai had the bus fare, a bottle of water, and two snacks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Mom, Dad, can one of you give me a ride to school in the morning? I really hate taking the bus.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Bus nine. Last call for bus nine,” the loudspeaker announced. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

That’s when the blood came from the two holes, and the driver called for help on the bus radio. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The explosion of bus windows still rang in my ears. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

One morning at dawn, I’m in the dark bus, bumping down the steep, dusty dirt road to Otavalo. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would drive me home or give me money for the bus fare. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that love of buses had become an academic focus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Never trust what you read on the side of a bus. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motion of the bus soon made your eyelids droop. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of backing down the bus stairs, I squeezed inside, pulling close to the rail between the people getting off, and dropped my quarter in the money slot. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They integrated their bus and traveled from Washington, D.C., through the deep South. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A young White House aide, Egil Krogh, came up with the idea of parking sixty buses around the building, bumper to bumper, to form a makeshift barricade. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The bus door swings open on hinges that creak and groan. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel as if I were getting on the number 30 Stockton bus in San Francisco. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she passed the gates of Lambeth Palace, three buses went by. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I avoided all contact with my parents, never approaching Dad’s bedroom, getting up early and standing in the dark an hour before the school bus came. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day—while riding on the bus, walking in and out of stores, shopping for our dinner—my mother trembled. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course there’s a Western Union window here. All bus stations have a Western Union window.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But no, they pulled a little girl off the bus.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I saw them every day from the school bus as it headed for Mount Pitts, and eventually Overlook Road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ruby told me what happened on the bus.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The bus stops at the O’Connell Monument and Uncle Pat goes to the Monument Fish and Chip Cafe where the smells are so delicious my stomach beats with the hunger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bus driver didn’t say anything at all, didn’t even give us a glance before cranking the doors shut and roaring away. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the bus began filing off with their identity cards in hand, so the empty bus could be checked for weapons or stowaways. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Time and school buses waited for no one. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the bus, I lean my head against the glass window. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels? Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Psi Special Forces—that’s what the driver of the bus had called himself and the others when they collected us from the warehouse. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Ten minutes? I was riding home on the bus....” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Every school morning, I stood outside and waited for the bus with her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

For the next two days, Charlie gets busy checking maps of Puerto Rico and bus routes. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There wasn't enough time to blow the whistle, so Canton's mother, Ms. Post, went chasing after Kenzi, who, once he realized a bus was coming, froze in the middle of Portal Avenue. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

As we were leaving, we heard a few rocks hit the side of the bus. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A city bus ride and a walk home later, nothing. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We walk past the Hub and through the open gate, watching, waiting, as others file onto idling buses that will take them to the train station and airports and home. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His emotional support human, and that all this was just a way to keep his mind off his mother and the fear of a school bus swiping her again. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The back of the bus is already packed with people. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I hear the bus a long time before I see it. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people on the bus were the kind who want to check off the sights on a list from a travel website. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Stanley Yelnats was the only passenger on the bus, not counting the driver or the guard. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Audrey documented every part of our trip, from waiting at the bus stop to sitting together on the hard bus seats, and she snapped a selfie in front of every store we visited. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I had just gotten off the bus in a little town at the edge of our reservation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Kenton seated herself on the bench provided, while I remained on my feet where I could command a view of the approaching bus. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The street was filled with people and the bus had stopped a few yards down the street, blocking traffic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years since Terry, stops, interrogations, and searches of ordinary people driving down the street, walking home from the bus stop, or riding the train have become commonplace—at least for people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, just beyond the parking lot, a little red Volkswagen bus pulls up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the shuttle bus pulled up, there was a flurry of activity. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She plunked herself down beside him on the bus and squeezed over closer to him to make room for May Belle on the same seat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The bus dropped him off in front of Hazelwood Middle School, where he was in sixth grade. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their breath turns to smoke around them as they wait for the bus to Garden High. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Jule paid her fare, and the doors of the bus closed. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ann barely noticed their talk until the conversation drifted to the escalating local controversy over segregated buses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I needed time to think, a taxi would be too quick, as would a bus, what was I afraid of? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On a cloudy, rainy day in September 1975, I packed everything I owned into an old green duffel bag and Ma drove me to the Greyhound bus station. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We caught a local bus going north and only got off ’cause the driver called last stop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The light had changed without our realizing it, and the bus driver was waving at us to get out of the way. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the buses pull away, and the flow trickles down to a few stragglers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning as I waited for the bus, I saw Charlie pull his bike from the garage and start it up. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, honey, Quito’s not far at all. Just a bus ride away. Now, why don’t you get a good night’s sleep and tomorrow you can call your sister.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we hadn’t been sprinting for the bus, I would have shouted horrible things. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s my first time taking a bus by myself. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was already mad at him and the others for not backing me up on the bus. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later my mother was looking for me and she took me to the back of the bus and explained why I couldn’t sit there. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

With shells exploding all around, the bus sped to a military airbase and stopped in front of a complex that had once been General Westmoreland’s headquarters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Fred Gray asked her to state her name and address and tell when she had stopped riding the buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Just before we were to reboard the bus, I wandered into the large drawing room dominated by a Hals and a Rubens. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

So it was a relief to finally get on the bus. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, the bus squealed to a stop. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the dark, I walk all the way up to Riverside, about ten minutes away, where they run a late bus for the nighttime water-plant workers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t hurry, she might miss the five o’clock bus. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The walk to the bus stop is only a few blocks from my house, but it reminds me of a nightmare I always have. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They took a chartered overnight bus to D.C. in order to be at the rally by early morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sat together whenever we could—on the bus, at recess, in the classroom—and she made me laugh as no one else could. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mom and I get off the bus in Chinatown and stroll down a packed street. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He told the owner he was quitting, collected his pay, and boarded a bus bound for Shanghai, about ninety miles to the south. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He * * After the ceremony, we take buses to the reception hall and wait outside as the banquet food is laid out. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Park hadn't thought that either, the first time he saw Eleanor on the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The moment I take my seat on the bus, I fish through my back pack for my notebook. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the back of the bus, feet up and over the back of the seat in front of me, and so I was the last one out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A new seating plan that would let blacks sit from back to front and whites from front to back until the bus filled up, as was the practice in several other Southern cities. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Small planes did no doubt pass within sight of the bus from time to time, but McCandless would probably have had to start a fairly large forest fire to be sure of attracting their attention. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But anger roiled in my belly, and after I boarded the bus back to the apartment that day I was seized by another idea. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“You mean like those women on the bus? You can have one of them, you know. Why don’t you drop a greeting card in one of their laps?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the main doors, I could see the fleet of yellow buses coming up the circular drive. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Park pulled down his headphones and turned to the back of the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It seemed like all the people left in Manhattan were fighting to get into the bus terminal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And by the time you counted the bus ride to school every day, the bus ride home, and anywhere they went with their parents, Alex felt like he never went anywhere without Nunu. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I gotta get home. I go the other way. You just follow this road to the town, and I think you can get a bus from there.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked back from the bus stop she produced a sandwich bag from her pocket, and offered Eliot the peeled wedges of an orange, or lightly salted peanuts, which she had already shelled. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All at once, the bus ride to school was not what it had been. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Diners were everywhere, and so were jobs making deliveries, washing dishes, or busing tables. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only when we got off the bus and walked up the brick walkway to his door did I remember. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it, the bus swung into our school and we all piled off. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even if Eleanor could avoid the bus today, even if her fairy godmother showed up with a pumpkin carriage, she'd still have to find a way to get back to school tomorrow morning. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

This bright canary-yellow bus lets out one long, steady honk before starting off. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I could see it written really large, like it was on a big advert on the side of a bus. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bus will only be a few minutes.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to go back,” she said to Moody as they stepped off the bus. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bus lurched to a stop, and we were all forced to stay deathly still as the camp gate slid shut behind us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A man gets on the bus, his cell phone in his hand, and he is playing music for the entire bus, holding his phone up like it’s an eighties boom box. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To house construction workers while the road was going in, Yutan purchased three junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 Caterpillar. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bus reaches the hillside, I’m the only one who steps off. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The parking lot, where a dozen buses might normally be parked, had been transformed into a vast outdoor prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We stopped somewhere called the Country Bear Motel across the street from the bus station. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Though Robinson owned her own car and rarely rode the city bus, the memory of the driver’s bullying behavior and how humiliated she had felt wouldn’t go away. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Heading toward the crosstown bus, I passed a liquor store, and without thinking about it, I went in and bought a fifth of gin. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Emily scanned the people moving in and out of the stores and restaurants, the cars parked at the meters, the bus shuttling down the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We took the bus to Rome where we thought the family attended school. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Arrangements were also made for chartered planes and buses to go to the game at Texas Stadium in Irving. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex could feel Jordan’s hips flex as he pressed his feet into the floor, shoving his body harder and harder against Alex’s, mashing him against the side of the bus. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

A velvet curtain concealed the back of the bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bus ride became increasingly bumpy because the road was no longer paved. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Kyro invites me along, but I’m still not ready to get on a school bus, let alone stay on one for over a hundred miles each way. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I took the bus Celia told me to take and walked into a building filled with white tables and chairs. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The bus took a deep dip as it pulled off the narrow road and onto a smaller dirt one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He drove to Las Vegas, sold his junk-heap car, packed his collection of maps, old letters, manuscripts, and books, and bought a ticket for a Greyhound bus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the glare died, the Maserati had been replaced by one of those Turtle Top shuttle buses like we used for school basketball games. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She nodded at Trashman, who was waving at a passing bus. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was snowing when she went to the bus stop, the sort of snow that feels like sharp little ice pellets on your skin. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see him again that day until after school, when I found him at the back of the bus, where it was super hot and the windows all fogged. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you know which bus could take a person to Yana Urku?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On the bus, you were all in his face,” Malik says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

During their stay they climbed aboard a city bus and sat down next to a white man and his son. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

All she thought about was going to Hollywood when she could scrape up the bus fare and getting a job as a secretary and being buddies with Jeanette MacDonald and getting in the movies herself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bus pulled up to the front of the school, taking its place behind a line of unloading school buses. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When the bus came I got on it and cried a little and then fell asleep. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following morning Julian waited at the bus stop, still wearing short pants and knee socks. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Habazz kept alternating between having the kids from the bus talk and letting the other kids ask questions. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If I see Mother again, I will tell her what happened to the bus at the checkpoint. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The bus trundles for another hour before we reach the city of Izmir, where we disembark at the otogar. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ivanito called to her from the bus window with eyes that strafed her with grief. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t given Grover the slip at the bus station, he might not have gotten in trouble. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the bus stopped, I made my way forward and slipped a Year-of-the-Souls penny into Noah's hand. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Got so miserable on the school bus, with him pulling my ears and singing that song he made up, that I took to riding my bike. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later, the windows of the bright yellow buses they used to bring kids in would be smeared with black paint. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If I didn't pocket my curiosity, I would be giving away more than a bus seat. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pattie and I ride the bus at the end of the day back to the apartment and Dell is waiting for us in the living room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The beach wasn’t far from the bus stop. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I stayed right until the last bus was about to depart. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The maid in the front of the bus rises up at the same time I do, and we get off the bus. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This bus was air conditioned, and you couldn’t open the windows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks before I was set to leave South Africa and return to the States, I was walking with Zinzi and Simo from the kumbi, or bus station, back to the house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Like all students, Beatrice the Bear lived in the vicinity of her school bus stop. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie and her mother stayed in the village while Mo and Elinor went in the taxi to the nearest town, and came back a few hours later driving the two small buses they had rented. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

How much better would people get along if their first encounter each day were like this—instead of a grumble from a waitress or a bus driver or a boss? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fights had broken out on the buses between the junior high school students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of Sourmetal Smells—like steel bus rails and the smell of the bus conductor’s hands from holding them? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk to the bus stop, thinking about the fish and the river Sabrina was telling us about. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I keep my head down as I get on the bus and stare at my feet as I trudge to my usual seat. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For example, in one case, a sweep of one hundred buses resulted in only seven arrests. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sal and I don’t talk much, but we lean into the turns the way we used to when we were little and actually believed that we could make the bus tip over. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

At Club Boulevard and Fourth Street, Council stopped the bus and Spicely got off, using the rear door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At one time, maybe this was a bus stop. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t knock Angelo, neither. He’s got him a hard road, boy. Santa says he’s been in the bathroom at the bus station all day.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red, green, and yellow school bus is parked on the street to our right. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Last year, Justin would at least take the bus with me whenever he didn’t have practice or workouts. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Go to social events together. Have our kids walk to the bus stop together.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Maribel getting off the bus, standing in the middle of the parking lot, her backpack hitched high on her thin shoulders, confused because I wasn’t there. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then he meets this nice, homey, sincere girl getting on a bus. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a fast food joint with extra value and no food. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I’m near about hyperventilating at the bus stop thinking about what Miss Hilly gone do when she get to her part, wondering if Miss Leefolt done read Chapter Two yet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But Tobias doesn’t mess with the Black or Latino boys, at least on the bus. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then, late that afternoon, he rousted him out and put him on the bus, with the rest of the boys, headed for the regatta course. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I only see the diner from the bus now. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The cops were certain Mark was on that bus, and they were ready to greet it in the station. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Alex stared out the window at the apartments on Riverside Drive as the bus whizzed up the West Side Highway. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The bus driver, a man older than our father but not as old as Big Ma, stopped us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The school buses pick the children up right at the park and bring them back. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was sitting smoking in the bus shack, last Angela Bullock heard.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wiped his face again with his sweatshirt sleeve and then spun around and climbed on the bus. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s time for you to catch the bus. Go on. Have a good day at school, sunshine.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Once we dock, Meng finds a bus station and buys our fares with the Vietnamese money he has saved from his last trip. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that meant I wouldn’t have to deal with them on the bus ride home. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had learned the hard way that the U-boat, which was about the size of a school bus inside, traveled mostly above water across the Atlantic. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was all filled up, you know? That’s why they bused us to Ohio.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Not everyone knew the bus rule that said they couldn’t make you get up and stand if there was no seat available for you to go to—but I did. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a paintbrush painting the world a blurry brushstroke. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You do have a baseball somewhere under that cape, right?” the bus driver asked. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tyrell raced to the front of the class and cried out, “Someone crashed into our bus!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But with the bus in Spokane and Mark not on it, her idea got louder. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I keep my head down as I walk to my bus line. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Montgomery City Lines bus company hired tough men to command their buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

We decided we should still go to Mexico, and I said we’d just pay for a bus to take us down to the border. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every day after school, as I walked home from the bus stop, he would stare at me. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sat on the bus until everyone had reboarded it; the soldiers didn’t come looking for me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The vet winked at me, continuing his flow of words as the bus got under way. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a sunny day, so we walk all the way down the hill to Queens Boulevard instead of taking the bus. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always wanted to ride on a school bus,” said Brad. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It just killed me to leave the bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A Talib had fired three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a school bus—and none of us were killed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And I sincerely doubt that I have now. Sister Rita, when is the bus coming to get you? Tomorrow afternoon?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They’re already sitting at the front of the bus. And you still manage to find a seat.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were put back on a bus and driven through the prison complex—an array of geometrically arranged buildings with blue roofs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He swung off the bus before it had really stopped and ran back toward the sign. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I finally got to ask Connor over as we sat on the bus together that day after school. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even on the bus ride home, she’s still worried that her perfect record is tarnished. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Someone threw a firebomb through a broken window, and the panic-stricken passengers, choking from the dense cloud of smoke, escaped through an emergency exit seconds before the bus burst into flames. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antonapoulos crowded into the bus and settled himself with elaborate preparations on one of the front seats. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jim was already at the bus stop while I was still rushing around getting ready. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Police, fearing the protests would turn violent, parked a protective barricade of buses head-to-tail around the White House. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He gave us his card, with his address in London and his club and his business address, and as we got on the bus he handed us each an envelope. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Their coach ended up in such a bad mood, though, that he made them leave the social early and get back on their bus to head up to Seattle. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I make my way back to the bus stop, then use a nearby phone booth to call a cab. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Bernard Lafayette, at right, stands with five other freedom riders at the closed door of a Greyhound bus in Birmingham, Alabama, May 19, 1961. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, he wouldn’t let us ride the city bus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t see that a fight had just ended, but he did see the angry tension in the crowd as he walked past the bus top. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stares at the commuters who cling precariously to trams and buses, threatening at any moment to spill onto the street, and at the families who boil rice and shampoo their hair on the sidewalk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl in the blue basketball shorts calls to Sasha through the doors of the bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When he stepped onto his bus for the trip, he sat at the front like all the other white people. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the morning on the bus he’d always come sit next to me, and Mrs. Cordell put his regular seat next to mine in school. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the crack of dawn the next day I would be up to catch the first bus to the ranch. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a sight we must have been—a giant, speeding yellow school bus, weaving in and out of traffic, horn blasting. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A gleaming black-and-gold bus was parked along the curb with the front sliding doors open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bertha chatted with some woman who had a bunch of wild kids running around the bus station. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

My homeroom teacher, Miss Allison, a young white woman with glasses who generally ignored me, would shrug as I walked in ten minutes late, apologizing about a delayed bus. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus shimmies and shakes and finally lurches forward. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t seen the hug in the band room, and he hadn’t been on the bus yesterday either. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d taken the bus home from work one day and helped save the life of a teenager whose skirt was on fire. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Is that coffee?” someone calls as Matt makes his way down the aisle of the bus. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

On the Monday after New Year’s, Kyle stood shivering at his bus stop. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

As I stepped off the bus, I suddenly felt as though a heavy weight were resting on my chest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

While waiting for the bus I started a conversation and explained how interested I was in DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

To beat to death a careless bus driver. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus done stopped in the middle a the road. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We have our bus rides, and I started eating lunch with her and her friends. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After his attempt to depart the wilderness was stymied by the Teklanika’s high flow, McCandless arrived back at the bus on July 8. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There might even be time to enjoy it all, now that they had ten-minute commutes by bus as opposed to ninety-minute treks by train and on foot. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned forward into the rain, looking for signs of the bus. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible, but somehow this man was doing a dead- on impression of my middle school bus driver, Mr. Barron. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I stumbled off, hearing the bus pull away as I faced the water. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin caught the school bus to Coalwood to help me do the loading and then spend the night at my house so we could get an early start. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a gate out front where the buses pulled up, and the principal could throw a switch in his office and the gate would automatically open and close. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My father had been arrested that morning at the bus stop—for being unemployed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

With some spare change from Ares’s backpack, we took the bus into West Hollywood. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He'd made eye contact with her only once since her first day on the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Of course die whole bus started laughing and hollering. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Canisters of tear gas came arcing out from behind the bus barricade, landing among the protestors. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I thought they must have seen us get on the bus with a beach bag, but I didn’t say anything. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

As I got off the bus, my little brothers and sister ran up to meet me. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lover waited for her to catch up with the bus in her memory. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They ran to their respective buses, the soles of their sneakers slapping on the blacktop, calling “One-two-three!” and “Zoot!” behind them. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I shudder and minutes seem to take forever, and then the bus arrives. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s hot as hell when I finally get off that bus. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came out the bus was crowded. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And also because it took up my Sunday—not to mention the trouble of getting to the bus, buying tickets, and spending two hours traveling. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Rico asked as the bus pulled out of the lot. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A city bus pulls up to the curb in front of me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Are you the foster kid?” the bus driver asked. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had studied maps of this area for weeks, and he knew precisely where to get off the bus—a place marked by a large boulder right near the road. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb’s expression is placid as the bus sways and jolts on the road. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence as the bus made its way up the narrow mountain road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then a conductor in a purple uniform leapt out of the bus and began to speak loudly to the night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

By the time I board the bus to go home, I’m totally wiped out and in a really bad mood. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He had hitchhiked, and ridden on two buses, and walked, and reached Oxford at six in the evening, too late to do what he needed to do. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to run the siren for a few seconds or we’re not allowed to pass the school buses. Nothing to worry about.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I hit Play, and I wish I could jump off this bus. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Fujiko had imagined, shutting her eyes, that the sandstorm battering the bus was the rain of home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stood for a whole minute like that, in silence, like two strangers waiting for a bus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I might have said I’ve had enough of buses for a while, but it’s a brand-new day, and riding the city bus seems more exciting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Greyhound bus station was across from the Suffolk Hotel in those days. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to ask, “We got a team on the bus. We’re hungry and we have money to pay. Can we eat in your restaurant?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d ever questioned why Rain and her friends gave up on city life in San Francisco and founded Garland back in 1967, five minutes on that bus explained it. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I sat by the gate, reading my copy of the Almanac, until it was time to board the bus. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The outsides of our thighs touching as we squeezed together on the bus. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We dart in and out between cars, trucks, and buses, like I've seen on TV. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Because I have a trick: I stop off at the donut shop and buy a pack of gum after I get off the bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ashoke’s mother was always convinced that her eldest son would be hit by a bus or a tram, his nose deep into War and Peace. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The following day we took a three-hour bus trip to Hammanskraal, a rural ghetto outside Pretoria, there to see what my mother described as the greatest diviner in the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By age twelve, I was traveling an hour and a half one way to junior high school by myself, taking two buses each direction every day. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waddle myself from the bus stop, hardly able to keep my eyes open. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A dented relic of the Afghan war, it was as big as a school bus, seated twenty-six passengers, and looked like it had been riveted together in somebody’s backyard. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how much you flirt or carry on like a cool cat and roll up your skirt waistband on the bus, they still just think you’re L-7. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert, Keisha, and I get off the bus for our class trip to the Noah Webster House. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Can you make us up some sandwiches in the kitchen to take out to the bus?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking that anytime I would be kicked in the face by the white bus driver, I started begging for mercy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus pulled away in the opposite direction. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bus moves and stops, moves and stops, making its way through North Portland. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I bought my ticket and climbed into the bus. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing 1 see when I get off the bus is graffiti on walls, beer bottles filling trashcans, empty cigarette packs, and syringes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At a Salvation Army outlet in Scranton, not far from the bus station, I went looking for a suit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The little bus slows down and finally comes to a halt. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He collected change for the bus, put on his cowboy hat, and started toward the front door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

With these in my jacket, I hurried toward the Greyhound bus station. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he mean like the women who rode on the bus? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were people sleeping under the bushes near the bus stop. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Jenna tries very hard not to pry on the bus after school. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I lasted exactly the length of the bus ride. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After way too long of a ride, the bus screeches to a stop right in front of Shabazz Park. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the way from the bus stop, Hazel walked by Jack’s house slowly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Simon intercepts me on my way to the buses. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, he takes a bus every morning to work with a carpenter. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Once the bus is full, the bus attendant slams the sliding door and stands in the stepwell as we speed out of the otogar. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, the speaker at the front of the room crackled, and Finn heard the school secretary say, “Pardon the interruption—bus thirty-two has just arrived. Teachers, please admit the late students to class.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay...so if that’s true, don’t people have the right to know if a werewolf is sitting next to them on the bus?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Granny dragged me—I was in some sort of stupor—by the neck back to the black bus stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so fun when we have away games. Last year we did makeovers on the bus, and we prank-called Coach Fuller on her cell phone from the back. That’s her over there.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And Samira saved me a seat on the bus going home, so even though it was Monday, and the basketball boys weren’t even there, I wasn’t sitting alone. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

How to sit calmly at the front of a bus, or walk into a restaurant that was for whites only. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old bus climbed slowly, and as the driver negotiated the gears, gas, and gravity, it felt as though at any moment it would roll backward. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

After the bus bounced back onto the road, Maribel just stood in the middle of the parking lot in the drizzling rain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Six buses and two trucks were making the journey. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There is no bus in sight, so I decide to walk a few blocks to the next stop. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

James looked at the parking meters, the liquor store across the street, the bus stop in front of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The seats were tattered, and there was an awful smell of chemicals and oil and the loud sound of the engine roaring as the bus pulled away from the curb. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They abandoned the car and flagged down a crowded State Transport bus. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among these, of course, was the school bus. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1960s, the bus desegregation law had been passed, but the “coloreds” signs still hung prominently in the back of buses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, however, forty-three blue-skinned fairies with dragonfly wings fluttered into the buses and settled on the backs of the gray-patterned seats. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But Chris says with a good load of that gravel on the low place, we wouldn’t have a bit of trouble. The county keeps the roads clear for the school bus.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Your friend Angela tried to run when she saw the police parked out in front of the high school. They caught her on a bus bound for Newark.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Immediately when she walked down the aisle of the bus she felt eyes boring into her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the trainer’s room, Alan Stewart, the Odessa police chief, was on the phone making sure there was a police escort for the buses. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two other people on the bus, but they both turned to look at them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, be careful from now on. If you go and walk under a bus or get lost or something, they’ll realize you’re not from this world and start looking for the way through....” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The B52 bus was taking forever, but there was still really no quick way to get to certain parts of Bed-Stuy. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I’m watching the roads carefully, in case I ever do decide to make this journey alone, by foot or by bus. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, the bus stopped at the end of my street, a cul-de-sac. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The truth is, in high school most of the boys lived in Ogdentown, and those of us who came on the bus were regarded as outsiders—hillbillies, in fact, and not fashionable. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I head back to my classroom to apologize to Mrs. Hall before the buses leave. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The cheese bus—yellow and boxy like a block of government-issue cheese—picked kids up from Dundee Village and delivered them, twenty-five minutes later, to Perry Hall High School in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If I came along and helped look after her two toddlers, she said she’d pay me two hundred dollars at the end of the summer and buy me a bus ticket back to Welch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had been working on the hill for two hours already when they saw the bright yellow school bus go by on the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She made such a fuss that Mrs. Prentice, the driver, ordered Jesse off the bus, and he had to walk the three miles home. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Being the new kid on the bus, Roy didn’t expect any help from the others. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a black person violated the accepted code of behavior, whether by talking back to a bus driver or daring to try to vote, he knew he might well be punished, perhaps by death. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I caught the bus to South Rampart Street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he described getting on the bus and how there was a man on the bus wearing a skirt. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A toilet flushed from somewhere in the back, and a voice from behind them said, “Hey, Mikey. You had one responsibility—keep groupies off the bus. How hard is it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When the bus pulls away, I let my tears fall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode the bus all over town, stopping in at high schools where they didn’t even go to school, just to visit whoever might be hanging around the halls. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But to reach the bus, I, too, need to cross the river, and the aluminum tram is still chained to the far shore. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the court hearing where Governor Fau- bus would be called to account, the nine of us were summoned to Mrs. Bates’s house to meet with the press. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like a good idea until I’m standing at the bus stop in front of school as a blizzard rips through the county. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have three denarii for the bus? Because I left my wallet at home, and I’ve got to get to work, and—” “Don,” Hazel chided. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Briana Morales’s brother. I’m here to take her to St. Benedict’s for the bus.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

On those days Roy’s father always gave him the newspaper so that he could read it on the bus and pick out a timely article. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of looking out of the windows of all those trains and buses, looking at the feet and backs of all those people. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At recess or on the school bus, especially on Wednesdays, the day after the TV show came on, the boys would all sing, “They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,” or something like that. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papi could get a bus from the airport to Port Authority and walk the couple of miles uptown if he had to. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The bus jolts over the broken, unfunded roads. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then one morning he dropped a white envelope on the seat beside her just before he got off the bus. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get off the bus, I'm surprised to find that 1440 North Main Street is a busy office building. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ve got time to make you some French toast before the bus comes. The kind my momma used to do. She called it pain perdu.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trapane would see Jason off to the school bus and would watch Jaime at home until Nancy came back from work that evening. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the boys had seen Luma get pulled over through the rear window of the bus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I got on my bus and sat in my seat alone. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They waited just outside the open doorway of the auditorium beside a painted school bus. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If I had bumped into someone from Chisamba Singles on that bus, he would have understood why I was selling those drinks. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” Jake replied, also in Swahili, “then you will need to exit the bus in two more stops.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of them surrounded the bus, some carried bats or metal poles, and others held vicious German shepherds, growling and ready to attack these unarmed people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The definition inserted itself into billboards and the ads on passing buses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Victor and his gang piled out of the bus and took off at a fast clip toward the field. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur and Curtis came up and stood behind me to wait for their bus. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not at the guy who crashed into our bus. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She was allowed to get off the bus whether I was there or not. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They went out that day, the four of them, Rasheed leading them from one bus to the next, to greet their new world, their new leaders. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t come on Friday, and I’d finally moved to the front seat of the bus so Tim Miller couldn’t get anywhere near me on the way home, I decided I’d call. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They went to Sardinia and Scotland and rode on the upper deck of a London airport bus as it skimmed below trees. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was late dusk when the bus pulled into some little town for a stop. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked for a cab or a supercabos bus but didn’t see either. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a book of stamps. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was charged with looting and put in the cages behind the bus station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Every AC Transit bus is equipped with cameras that continuously record sound and video from multiple vantage points. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how to tell my family that I'm not on the bus, that I'm with Darius, in his car, about to step into his grandmother’s ginormous house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We took the cable car to the bus stop and took the East Bay bus back to Oakland. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My kids go out now to wait for the buses that take them to their schools.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Blacks caught sitting in white sections of buses or trolleys, no matter how crowded, were subject to fines. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You had to ride in the back of the bus or the streetcar, and you couldn’t sit down unless no whites were on board. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually we cut into the heart of some college campus ’cause Mong said there might be a bus station somewhere inside. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He seemed better and talked about the bus back. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Next came the driver’s radio call, and within minutes, a policeman entered the bus and arrested her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski said, "That is either the most honest or the most dishonest answer I have ever heard. I must notify the bus driver that I'll be driving you four souls home." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They then jostled back through to the aisle to the front to leave the bus. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When the man was several yards from the bus, he tossed the woman to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The only bus after that didn’t leave until nine at night. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the meager meals I managed on the bus ride, I delight in eating my fill. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are 7 kids at the bus stop in front of our apartment. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Disgraced, he packed his things and boarded a bus to Iran, never to be seen or heard from again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Sonny, I think you’d better go up to the Little Store bus stop.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her I’m at the bus stop. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Social note: Nothing today; Mother gone again, looking like a courtesan; one of her cohorts, you might like to know, has revealed his hopelessness by revealing a fetish for Greyhound buses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coach closed the bus door, threw it in gear, and pulled away. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, we turn into a neighborhood where some kids who definitely look like eighth graders get on and go straight to the back of the bus. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We sat in a row of sticky vinyl seats and waited for Jackie’s bus to get there. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After all, who hung out with Cap before he ever drove a bus, or masterminded a dance? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He only takes the bus once in a while; he usually gets a ride from an older kid in a beat-up car. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He had taken a load to New Orleans, where he had left his truck for repairs and caught the bus back to Hattiesburg. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she staggered with the bus’s movement my lack of gallantry tormented me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today was a bus day, and she took her seat early and glued her eyes out the window so she did not have to see Jack. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The names, Sarah, Bruce, Rube, were familiar...Ages ago, in time well outside the mastaba, they had heard these names—in a classroom, on a school bus... From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I wouldn’t have to take the smelly bus to the city library. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter was almost run over by the bus!” she shouted. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I bolt to the little bus, but it’s already driving off. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When Todds search was complete, the two of them were led back through the bus station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I told you the Latin Club was meeting today—and then I missed the bus coming home.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody in Springfield ever benefited from the Merry Widow Insurance Company. bused/buses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked right past the bus and around the corner of the building. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When times got a little better, we traveled by bus. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group groan comes from the back of the bus. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I stop by Lee Lee’s on my way, but she’s not home, so I get on the bus and go by myself. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In another attempt to make money to pay off their debts, they buy a bus with a brother-in-law. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She took off her wedding band as she got on the bus.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was, for a time, a citywide integration movement to bus kids to new schools, but Bryn Mawr parents had successfully fought it off, arguing that the money was better spent improving the school itself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When Ducky finished dressing we walked to the bus stop together. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The whole house is quiet, and I hear a bus making its last run on the street out front. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took a bus to a place Rasheed called the Shar-e-Nau Park, where children pushed each other on swings and slapped volleyballs over ragged nets tied to tree trunks. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bus is too unreliable at this time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Crowds at Safeway or at bus stops would be noisy with sound. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Say, look ahere, Mr. Rinehart, how about giving me a job?" one of them said, approaching me, and I waved and crossed the street, walking rapidly down Eighth toward the next bus stop. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no sign of bus face anywhere. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But by the time the bus pulls away she’s still waiting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Montgomery Advertiser was sponsoring a fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Montgomery bus boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

On each bus, two Fruit of Islam men were in charge. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the afternoon before, Mrs. Parks had refused a driver’s command to give up her seat to a white passenger on a crowded bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She walked him to the bus and watched him get on, the pale faces of the other children at the window, the bus driver waving to her too cheerfully. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You will stand and exit the bus in an orderly fashion,” he yelled. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I think of the neighborhood I see every day on the bus ride to school. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Since she was known not to take a bus, I expected the walk to be short. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

That was the thing—everybody on the bus already had a seat. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They checked the bus for reasons nobody understood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I felt a pair of cold hands clutch my neck and yank me off the bus. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he hurried he could make the four o’clock bus to work. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A news truck whiz by, way down at the intersection the bus turned off of. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He heard her say “Jesse” once, but the bus was noisy enough that he could pretend he hadn’t heard. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Difference: She tells me she saw a school bus fall from the sky. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

There are bus passes in the kitchen drawer. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She sent the children off on the school bus and drove to work. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He settles on a bus bench to wait, and I turn to go out the back door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If I make a break for it now, I could skip out on this and ride the bus home like normal. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s like two people still standing at a bus terminal after all the passengers have been met, the instant shared feeling almost enough to make them intimates. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus lurched, and the girl rocked back to keep from falling. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He turned when he heard his name, but the doors of the bus closed behind him. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The rain pelted the bus with full force as it pulled away. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When Park got on the bus, he'd set the comics and Smiths tape on the seat next to him, so they'd just be waiting for her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Two more for holding both kids’ hands when I pick them up from the Head Start bus stop to keep Bryce from wandering into the street after some rock he’s spotted. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

An ice chunk goes spinning into the bus’s wheel. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The bus is almost empty, with two exceptions. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I hold on to the white envelope all through class and still have it in my hands when I get on the bus. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The one in the pajamas is the kid who tried to choke me on the bus. The other one, that’s his mother. They’re fighting over my apology letter.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lars was a real trouper when the touring company’s bus was stopped by a state trooper. try and/try to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along Main Street was a grocery store, a drugstore, a Ford dealership, a Greyhound bus station, and two big casinos, the Owl Club and the Nevada Hotel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Startled by her rosy take on bus life. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Fern took no notice of the others in the bus. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Weaving through rush-hour traffic on Turtle's bike, Theo trailed the bus to a seamy downtown district across the railroad tracks where Crow and Otis got off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got off the school bus, I headed for Miss Riley’s classroom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And in Ayemenem, where once the loudest sound had been a musical bus horn, now whole wars, famines, picturesque massacres and Bill Clinton could be summoned up like servants. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is definitely a first for me. The sportiest thing I’ve ever done is run after the bus,” Juanga says as he ties his shoelace. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She told her mother she was sick. park When he got to the bus stop Friday morning, Park was ready to apologize. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Go screw yourself!” someone yelled from the back of the bus. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Someone turned around and punched the bus driver in the face, the bus driver ran to a store nearby and called the police. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On Friday morning, when Eleanor got to her bus stop, Park was already waiting there for her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We climbed back on the bus and continued our journey. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As I sat on the bus peering out the window at Mommy, the only white face in a sea of black faces, a black man walked up with his son. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother loved to ride the bus,” he murmurs. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He saw me in the back of the bus and came to the back. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I do my math homework on the bus, but it doesn't take three hours. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To try to get witnesses to say that the black community had not objected to segregated bus seating before the boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“This trip was to be a bus ride there and a bus ride back, with one hour popping your head into an audition and an important stop at a T-shirt stand, for me.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

After school I take the bus to Fizz’s. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, she had to travel twenty-five blocks away by bus to another school that was set up for our people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She takes the bus to Havana every afternoon and doesn’t come back until late at night. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew had been listening, his arm looped casually around the post as if he were waiting for a bus instead of hurtling down a steep hill. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Unsteadily he fell against the front window of the bus and his right hand grasped for the handle to the front door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the way to the bus station, I rehearsed heartfelt goodbye scenes in my head. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about two-twenty in the morning, the members of the Permian team arrived by bus from San Angelo at the field house. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buses let off, and the lawn starts to fill up with freshmen, none of whom seems particularly impressed by me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Lloyd was still shouting up to the front of the bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That last part was to me, because I got off the bus too. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know it was the white people’s bus,” I said contritely. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, a little after seven o’clock, two police cars raced into the parking lot by the bus station and train platform. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I sit by myself on the bus ride home. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Startled awake, Jeremiah grabbed his uniform and dashed to the bus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

All three buses drove down the hill and through the dark, starless night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When your whole world is a cheesy, prepackaged rehearsal for being alive, like middle school, a kid your own age who can pilot a twenty-ton bus is impressive. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But on the bus it was us and it made me think that I was special because I was as messed up as everyone else. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even talked Father out of money for bus fare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But despite that, despite everything, despite all the woman on the bus had told them about the world they’d reentered, Thomas felt safe for the very first time since coming out of the Box. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He talked to an orange-clad prisoner for a few moments, gave him a cigarette, and then returned to the bus station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Yang was a good man, she felt; he worked very hard, driving a school bus to Laurel Academy, a nearby private girls’ school, and working as a handyman. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An African child is bom in an Africans Only hospital, taken home in an Africans Only bus, lives in an Africans Only area, and attends Africans Only schools, if he attends school at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was released after a year and immediately bought a one-way bus ticket to California. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We cross the bridge, head in the direction a the colored hospital, where the bus make its turn. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They split us into two groups, and we trail behind them into the parking lot, where there are actual buses waiting to be boarded. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Soon as I told him, he said he was surprised it hadn’t happened sooner and told me to get on the late bus to Jackson and never come back. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

As they leave Havana, a brisk rain falls, rattling the tin bus. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been given forty dollars in travel money, along with my bus ticket. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“He tell us about a bus, too, tell us he go ridin into the har of darkness on a bus one time.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the bus engine rumbled to life, she didn’t wave but rather gave a quick flip of the hand that said, “Go! Go on!” and hurried away. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the man who’d been leaning against the front of the bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Fine. You can have the pasta with peas and cauliflower. We’re taking a bus downtown. It’s suppertime!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She may have been only sixteen, but Claudette had more experience than anyone else when it came to challenging Jim Crow on the Montgomery buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“She forced it to go to that situation on the bus so that she could rule out Erudite—except Erudite wasn’t ruled out.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The south county late bus doesn’t leave for another fifteen minutes, and then it’s another hour until Abby gets home. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In less than a month, crossing the Nebraska plains in the yellow school bus and going to school in Grand Island had become a familiar routine. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The next stop was the airport parking lot, and then a bus took us to the terminal, and then an open-air electric car took us to the security line. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The other people passing through the bus station, to the extent they noticed me at all, took me for a student at a nearby boarding school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The driver pulls the bus to the curb. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The way Jim must have felt when he stepped off the bus is probably the same way I felt those first couple of days in the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Alex watched for as long as he could, until the bus went through a short tunnel. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the truth is, I’m one of the only girls on the bus not dressed in indfgena clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a Fifth Avenue bus passed, it was a double-decker, and I made notes comparing it to a huge yellow-and-green dragon, which it did not look like at all. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I take the subway and then the bus, northward through the heated city, to where Cordelia now lives. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would then take the bus to the trial, or make an early morning visit to my office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the subways were out, Mami would have to get back to Manhattan by bus. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I comforted myself with the idea that any high school senior who still takes the bus home is a pathetic loser. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She left her daughter with Clara and took the bus, carrying a clown’s valise covered with flowers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand, brother,” I said, making my way into the bus. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course we have to pay the bus fare to get Yule May back up here on the weekends. Eight dollars. I ought to take it out of her pay.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Come on in. Rest yourself before you hop on that bus again.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I sat on the bus next to Heather, my other best friend, who was a year older and lived two houses away from me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Never have to worry about taking the bus or being bullied or dealing with racism or losing my friends. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I sat in the bus that went from California to Arizona, just watching the miles go by. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The accumulated combustion from the buses had thickened the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We walk out of the counseling center and make our way to the bus stop. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I pressed my forehead against the window as the bus passed by rolling green fields dotted with black-and-white cows grazing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When he got on the bus, she was already sitting in their seat—but sitting in his spot, against the wall. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a pillow fort that rolls. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Those laws said whites and blacks should be separated in all public places: drinking fountains, parks, trains, buses, downtown food counters, and public schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I walked over to Claiborne and caught the first bus that passed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in homeroom that morning thinking about what Charlie told me on the bus. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

For example: a local park, a coffee shop, the library, or bus stops.* Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One Tuesday morning four hundred excited schoolchildren were packed like sardines inside three buses. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After a period of anxious waiting,” he said, “about an hour and a half, I finally obtained a bus going back to Albuquerque.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jenna is still talking about the party on the bus ride after school, and I’m actually glad that I have to go straight home for my tutor. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The bus is loud but not as loud as sometimes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The adults on T & T were always going bananas over something, so I wasn’t surprised when the police, the superintendent, the principal, the bus company owner, and Mrs. Donnelly all took turns screaming at me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I think it'll be fine after I explain about the bus.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran out of money on the way, so I got off here and found a job laying blacktop for a few days, trying to earn enough for another bus ticket. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, I look around to see that many of the kids at the bus stop have stepped closer to me, as if to give me silent support. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Park braced himself every morning before she got on the bus, but you couldn't brace yourself enough for the sight of her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was October 16,2014, eleven months and twelve days since the fire on the bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But Wilmington had no subway and only the very poor took the bus, which stopped running at about nine P.M. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street was crowded with the bicycles of people coming home from work and with electric trolley buses blowing horns and crammed with passengers. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackjack swooped down behind an overturned school bus, where a couple of campers were hiding. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Will you send a note by the bus to tell us what to do to rejoin you all on Wednesday. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Difference: Benni is still screaming as the bus drives y. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Often after basketball practice, Rob and his dad gave Gerald a ride home so that he wouldn’t have to take the bus. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panting, Roy bolted for the door of the bus just as the last student, a tall girl with curly blond hair and red-framed eyeglasses, came up the steps. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus rolled off through the high snow, and when it was gone, everything around us was only white. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

One day when she had been attending Sacred Heart about a month, she was followed by a car on her mile walk home from the bus stop. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I am sitting in Mr. Flores’s Spanish class, and I see that the girl from the bus is here too. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The dog raced down the sidewalk after the bus. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They would be scolded for staying in the city when there was a mandatory evacuation in effect, and they would be sent north on a bus or helicopter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of the bus looking back to front, back to front, waiting for the long seconds while Brandon aimed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I began to walk faster as the bus was on its way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my backpack and dashed outside just in time to make the bus. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why had I decided to get off the bus in the middle of the country? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“So I got on the next bus here.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The original magnet design called for using copper for the electromagnet coils and the massive transmission bus that carried electricity to the racetracks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At the end, he substituted a magic cooking pot for the bus that carried them to Resthaven. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon in February, just after Comanche baseball season had opened, I observed a new fixture in the Chiefs bus. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

If she thought life on a bus was cramped, a boat for eight, including teenage boys who were getting as big as their father, was a test even for a saint. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She only made it about ¾ of a mile—just to the next bus stop. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The chained ones had a hard time getting down to the road, tripping each other up as they climbed off the bus. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I watch as he disappears into the bus station to wait for his connection. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d quickly grasp my hand as I stepped off the bus, ignoring the stares of the black women as she whisked me away. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? Politics isn’t a disease like polio. It’s something men talk about at the bus stop.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I stopped at the corner, looking for the pursuing man, the detective, and for a bus. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t see why I can’t just take the next bus,” said Scott as he buckled himself into the front passenger’s seat. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Rosa kept inviting me to tell my bus arrest story to the kids there, but after a while they had all heard it a million times. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I thought about it as the bus pulled out of the school driveway. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He turned around and began walking to the west, back toward the bus, back into the fickle heart of the bush. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it isn’t cool to sit in the front, I make sure to sit near the bus driver. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

All morning, as people have been loading the bus, I’ve been scrubbing the apartment clean, finding excuses to walk past the window to glimpse Antonio outside. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched from the kitchen window as they walked down the driveway to the bottom of the hill to wait for the school bus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes and Red boarded the bus, giving the daily head nod to the driver and walking down the aisle looking for a seat. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon our bus came along, and then we hiked back up to the house. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But that is stupid too because sometimes the children from the school down the road see us in the street when we’re getting off the bus and they shout, “Special Needs! Special Needs!” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Roy went down, he let out an involuntary cry, which was drowned by the loud, gaseous hissing of bus brakes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side were a lot of buses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When sleighs appeared on front lawns and fake snow on Douglas firs, Baba stayed home and I drove the VW bus alone up and down the peninsula. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell followed him off the bus, and then we stood there watching it pull away. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But you know, in Oklahoma, after the hundredth time I rode bus 209 and got cut with something or BrandonGoff ripped my hair out, I understood it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The bus was overcrowded, so I stood for most of the trip. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, I vowed I would never, ever ride a bus again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a town bus that ran on an hourly schedule between the university and the seaside. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The old people’s home is at Marengo, about eighty kilometers from Algiers, I’ll take the two o’clock bus and get there in the afternoon. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the bus back to the West Side, he kept asking me about the game and what his team could have done better. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I noticed there were some Hispanics at the next bus stop where some African American people were waiting. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The next day Ndlamini and I boarded a bus to the superintendent’s office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have thought about it on my way to the bus stop. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They traveled nearly four miles south to the Fifty-Fifth Street beach, where they left the bus and sat unnoticed, trying to calm down. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had a shuttle bus to take over to Piedmont High, and Moss couldn’t resist having a little fun. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I listened to the same heartbroken song the entire bus ride home, because it was still a summer when sadness was beautiful. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Rasheed is here, in Herat; he has come all the way from Kabul. The nikkavAM be tomorrow morning, and then there is a bus leaving for Kabul at noon.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We ran in a pack, whooping and screaming and pounding on each other until we got back to the bus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was alone in a bone-cold bus station on December 23, listening to a drunk guy and scraping the last of someone’s blood from underneath her nails with the corner of her bus ticket. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the entrance to Alex there’s the huge minibus rank and the bus station. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Claudia would also drive him to and from certain out-of-the-way Los Angeles destinations; otherwise he was quite adept at traveling by bus to wherever he wanted to go. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” Herbie bleated hysterically, leaping to his feet, “but 1 better leave now if I wanna catch the nine o’clock bus!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Negro Griffin, I walked up the steep hill to the bus station in Montgomery to get the schedule for buses to Tuskegee. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus takes a left at the next intersection and pulls up to the curb. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Last night, on the bus, I left without talking to Skye. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Moss pulled up to a bus stop near Jackson and let his bike fall to the ground beside him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Approaching the corner, I can’t believe how ordinary the bus stop looks in the summer, only another bend of sidewalk. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dispatched staff to Angola, which was several hours away, to meet the men when they were released, sparing them the midnight bus trip. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We put on our coats and walked to the buses together. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun and Todd were brought to the front of the cage, a few feet from the back of the bus station, and a different guard opened the door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

End of the school day, I get on the bus. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Rahel could see a row of bald heads at the bus window, above evenly spaced vomit streaks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brent Chisholm strode off the bus looking like he’d stepped straight out of a country music video, pearl snaps and all. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a classroom with a substitute teacher. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Herding them into the VW bus, she set off gaily enough, heading south on the highway and across Strawberry Mesa for a ways, and finally into the narrow, pretty gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily and James sat side by side in the accordion section of an extra-long city bus on their way to the Black Cat restaurant. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He started coming home late from games, walking the five miles instead of riding the bus. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said he needed the money for a bus ticket. But you don’t know where it was he wanted to go?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word, Jack pulled the bus off the road, turned in his seat, and pointed at me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke no more until they got off the bus at their stop. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That awful bus with gum on the seats and kids snickering when I walked by. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The bus stops in front of the school and I get up, scooting past the Candor man. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Everybody else on the bus was talking about the fight. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When the paper airplane bounced off the back of the driver’s head, the man pulled the bus over onto the shoulder. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I held my pants with one hand and ran back to the bus. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I hurried out into the hot, dusty, end-of-July afternoon, sweating and sandymouthed, as if late for a difficult interview, and boarded the red bus, whose motor was already running. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve stared out the window of my bus enough to know the way. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They caught the bus, or bought stamps, as quickly as they could, and never loafed around the cafe or the fountain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She found a white feather at the bus stop and a speckled rock in the gutter out front. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There was a time when I thought I would be the centerpiece of the bus case. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I sat gripping my brief case, my eyes closed, feeling the bus sailing swift beneath me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bus had been bought to take people who needed it on excursions. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Two middle school buses were pulling into the parking lot. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would get lifts from kind bus drivers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I left the store, I headed to stop two—the bus stop. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They belonged, as Harry saw when he raised his head, to a triple-decker, violently purple bus, which had appeared out of thin air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The bus that she had planned to take never came, so she grabbed the first taxi that she saw. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think you took the bus,” he said as they started walking down the long, long sidewalk toward the street. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My mom told him it was okay and took us to town, where we caught that bus. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They are on the school bus, where Cordelia stands close beside me and whispers into my ear: “Stand up straight! People are looking!” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily the next day was Saturday, so Roy didn’t have to get up early to catch the school bus. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You took a taxi from the bus station,” he said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, unwilling to give up the elegance he had felt on the flight, he taxied from the airport to the bus station and settled himself for two idle hours before the Greyhound left. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

More buses and cars had stopped on either side of the level crossing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horn of the bus in my ear. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Moreover, there would be no satisfaction in waiting at the bus stop with Rosy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Her cheek rested on top of Oliver’s head and she stared at the floor of the bus. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Beatrice’s back ached when she returned to the bus stop at around ten o’clock. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When we saw the bus about three blocks away we all got in a line—old thugs, young thugs, regular kids, then me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow from the school pay phone, she’d call the bus station and find out how much the ticket cost. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

As the bus moved east along Dexter Avenue, the seats filled up block by block with white passengers getting off work from the downtown stores and offices. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“You know, we got another complaint on Mancuso today from somebody who says a small man wearing a sombrero pressed up against her in a bus last night,” the detective said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe practiced tricks in the parking lot after all the buses were gone. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then when Maurice mentioned that, if they moved with haste, the bus might enable them to get the 3:40 train to Liverpool Street Station, we quickly said good-bye. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Olga had taken the bus that day because her car was in the shop to get the brakes replaced. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One by one they stepped off the bus and gazed at the wonderland they had entered. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Turns out we were on the same bus route. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He got on the bus Tuesday morning and sat with Shana. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I probably won’t see either of them until we get back on the bus. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Barks came from the back of the bus. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of buses were rumbling next to the curb. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Glass was everywhere. Cars left by the side ofthe road. Even a bus got overturned. Dogs and cats everywhere, digging in trash “Mud’s everywhere. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Fugees unloaded from the team bus in the parking lot of the Athens United Soccer Club a little more than half an hour later. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

During the next couple of weeks, the picture—however forcibly or accidentally it had been planted on the Chief—was not removed from the bus. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She was one of the three girls who just got out of the little red bus. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Cap, have you thought about air-conditioning the school buses in light of global warming?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Only a handful of people in this building know about the Hideout—Nora, plus the other kids I met at the bus stop. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was her first time on their bus and she knew her mother would freak if she found out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But when the day is done and everyone files out for their buses, I think for a moment of the scramble at the end of the day at the Khushal School. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“To get to Farmington, you have to go to Hartford and take a bus,” the ticket agent said. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus inches along even though there's no traffic. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the bell finally rang, I hightailed it out of there and headed for the bus. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly as buses rumble by, cars and taxis race for lane space. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Every time I saw a bus, I watched it sway. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I remembered one of my first sessions with my counselor, Mr. Richardson, after the bus accident. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I buried my head and got through the rest of the day, but the bus ride home felt like a condemned man’s last walk. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm swamped here—can you catch the bus today? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When it rains in New York, the playgrounds are empty and the buses are full. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She changed her clothes in the bathroom at the bus station. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I know, but maybe stand over here, and when you see the bus pulling up, then go over,” Nora suggests. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The school bus didn’t come for four solid days. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

On July 8, 1944, Spicely and a black woman boarded the bus in the black section of Hayti, sitting in the empty front section. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to be careful when you use this one. The last time I yelled this, I had to sit in the front seat of the bus.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only the sheer brick wall stretching down to the pavement, the cars and buses moving like toys so far below, and the blast of the wind against his face that made it terrifying. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

With this credible alibi in place, he bought a ticket for the three-day cross-country bus ride. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had texted Summer and Ximena the day I saw Gordy Johnson getting on an uptown bus, and we were all thrilled to know he was alive and well. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I step off the bus on Monday, and Garrett pops out of the stairwell like a jack-in-the-box. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The next bus stop would’ve been where Jasmine and her twin brother got on. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The bus company conceded that, according to the driver, Claudette had been sitting behind the ten white seats in front and there had been no seats available when the driver ordered her to move. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It was a bus ride of several miles from Windsor Station to the school. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He said he “didn’t know it” and they might have to get a tour bus for that. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was midmorning, and he was in the main shopping street, where buses shouldered their way through crowds of pedestrians. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man waiting at the next bus stop is literally on fire, but he doesn’t seem bothered by it. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Give my regards to Clark, Poindexter,” By said, and disappeared around the bus’s back. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later I walked out of the school, ran the three blocks to the bus stop, hopped on the M86 to Central Park West, and took the subway home. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Prom there we took the bus to a pet store and I had a huge grin on my face because I was right about my Christmas-comes-early feeling. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there must have been close to a hundred perspiring people squeezed into the stuffy bus. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two other people on the bus, but they both turned to look at them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Softly rounded rectangular buses chugged up and down the streets, trailing a stream of black smoke that made your eyes water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But today the bus driver did something he’d never done before. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, instead of heading to the bus, he began walking to the rest room. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was in one of the earlier buses they were taking to Maryland. Who knows?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was dusk by the time she got to the bus station. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

For some reason, instead of looking for transfers, we were going to sit in a bus. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas, so terrified by the ordeal that his body shook, turned and followed Teresa up the stairs and into the aisle of the bus. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"He went that way—see that bus stop down the street?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The inside was more like a giant motor home than a regular bus, with two diner-style booths on either side of the aisle and a mini kitchen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She even bit his shoulder when they were getting off the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

On Monday, Joseph and I tried to ride the bus to school, which I’d done a million times and it wasn’t exactly a big deal. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The first thing María does when we get to the plaza is look for the little buses. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

After school I see the track teams loading onto a bus. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Tonight it is holding scraps of paper, the 35 bus schedule, and old copies of the St. John’s Review—our community newsletter. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A bus arrives every hour, and boy, it can’t come soon enough. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then, to my immense relief, I saw an elderly couple waiting on the comer for a bus. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, the bus driver said nothing to me as I sat in the white section of his bus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had figured out that if the white people were so unwilling to share all the things like the buses, they certainly weren't going to share their bomb shelters with us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a single breath of stillness before a soldier in a black rain poncho rapped on the bus door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Young people from Miles College arrived in cars and buses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Now look. No eating these on the bus. These are for your party in homeroom at lunch. Got it?” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

For a while she even held her breath until she reached the next lawn, just as she did when the school bus passed a cemetery. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bus made several stops to pick up kids and, with each stop, the noise inside got louder. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But now, in the privacy of my bus seat, I can’t help but stare. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t even try to put this on me. You’re the one who has to take a canoe, a plane, and a bus to school. If you would be regular, I’d be seeing you every day.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She stopped checking her mail and rarely left the house except to work her shifts driving a school bus for disabled children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We were there on the bottom level of the Port Authority when Lucas's bus pulled in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He hid overnight in some grass, then was captured and put on the bus back to Guatemala. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the city knew it, from bus stops and benches and lawn signs; it was as common in New Orleans as live oak or royal fern. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Something she very probably hadn’t done in five or six years—when, for example, halfway home on the Lexington Avenue bus, she discovered she had left her scarf back at the movies. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Strategy two is that you can’t sit up front, which everybody knows, because on a regular bus it would make you a dweeb, and on bus 209 it will send you to the hospital. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Instead of answering, he hopped back in the bus. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We still walked to the school bus stop together, we still got off at the same stop, and we still talked. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I learned about another race-related problem in our city—the daily fights between black and white students on the city’s school buses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over the low stone parapet and peered down at miniature cars and buses and swarms of tiny people scurrying along the streets. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He slept heavily for several hours on the bus, woke and daydreamed, napped a little more, woke again at a rest stop and ate a bowl of pea soup. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still followed all the strategies for buses, so I stayed down and held my ankles off the floor, while Kyle told me where he was in Final Fantasy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The bus honked to warn her, but it was too late. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She slept on the couch, and left early the next day, on the first bus back to the village. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The driver pulled over to the side of the road, where the bus station mob, barreling down the highway in some fifty cars and pickup trucks, caught up with it. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Him and Luke in the back of a Greyhound bus—hell, in the El Camino now—following whatever highway would take them out of Hickory, North Carolina, fastest. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In a flat voice, as if she’d rehearsed it, she announced to the whole bus: “I need to use the restroom.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Always sit close to the bus driver,” she whispers. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I get on the city bus headed toward cam- pus, I'm just another person who doesn't want to freeze to death in the wind chill. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Brandywine, if you didn’t drive, you were stuck with me, on the bus. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“You really don’t have to. I mean, you could just take me to the bus stop...” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Mam comes for me and with my weak legs it takes us a long time to walk to the bus at Union Cross. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bus turned into the entranceway and stopped in front of us. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, I continue on my slow-motion journey, pausing again only when I get to the bus stop. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Victor strode to the front of the bus and jumped out, followed by his boys, and then the rest of us. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will be just as reliable as a bus. I promise.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The principal had to stay late to help, and they had to arrange two special late buses to get all the kids home. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of their friends and families watched as that bus headed southeast in the direction of Tsoodzit, Mount Taylor, the sacred peak that marks the southern boundary of Dinetah. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither one of us questioned whether we should catch a cab, or a bus, or jump on the train. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Again we boarded a bus, this time to a National Guard “military training range.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to accompany Sasha on their return to the bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He went two or three bus lengths beyond the sign, and even after he stopped and I ran up, he didn’t open the doors at first. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lying in his parents’ house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a bus, finding his resume in the bin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room is full of painters, sculptors, and sketchers during activity period, and some kids stay there until the late late buses are ready to roll. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The trip was without incident until we changed buses at Auburn. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the loudspeaker a voice announced that my bus was boarding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The bus attendant drags our luggage from the rack. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The light changed, and the bus started to move. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The controversy over the bus boycott vaulted the young Dr. King into the national headlines as the leader of the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Those who didn’t know about the one-day bus boycott read about it in the next morning’s Montgomery Advertiser, in a story leaked by E. D. Nixon to a trusted reporter. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Get it and promise to pick me up at the bus station whenever I come home.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I glance at the bus driver, but he doesn’t seem to notice. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She didn't say anything while they waited for the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Others have been on the bus dozens of times. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Raucous moments on the bus when he was sure that everyone was laughing at them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Get yourself to the bus stop, Elizabeth,” she orders. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He eased the bus around the curve and then, gears changing, ground his way up to us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Worthy got off the bus rather than pay more, only to have the driver follow her outside and begin punching her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The bus exploded on an east New Jersey roadside shortly after Jackson fled the scene. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And then the bus began to slow down and the trees were replaced by soldiers with big guns, all aiming at the road, at the bus. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He took to carrying one of the guitars onto the school bus every day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bus took us to Rome, to a train station where they said gangs of gypsy men roamed at night. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One wintry day in April, after making his usual three o’clock pickup at 109th and Amsterdam, the Chief turned the loaded bus east at 110th Street and cruised routinely down Fifth Avenue. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Your bus leaves at six a.m. tomorrow. You don’t want to be late. Come on. Chop chop. Your teeth are brushed?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I mention all of this because as soon as the bus started out of the car park, the wind coming through the open windows of the bus caused a peculiar warp in the sound. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got off the bus and walked the half mile to school, and right when I was about to climb up the steps of the auditorium, Sahil was coming down. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wealthy people in Saigon, hearing about the desperate plight of the refugees, drove out to the camp or came by bus, bringing water and food. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You know me,” Baba said, inching the bus along the queue exiting the flea market. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, as my friend and I stood in line to board the bus, we were asked to step out of the line and let others aboard. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Or she might be the woman with the bright eyes who sat opposite you on the bus this morning. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It normally served as a guide for the buses parking in the lot and for passengers forming lines. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The bus driver had to stop in the middle of the street to avoid hitting her! You should keep your children inside unless you come out with them!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gayle, stepped aboard the open door to an empty bus at a stop near King’s home and dropped coins into the fare box. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He smiled, and swung the bus out of the flea market. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the phone, she took out the directory to look up bus companies in the yellow pages. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got to our bus stop, and a couple minutes later, the bus pulled up and we got on. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of walking home after school today, I take the bus downtown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Don’t call me crazy! You think I’m going to ride that stinking bus all the way to Los Angeles?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path was a shortcut to the road, where I could catch the bus. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I squint at the text on the bus pass. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The last few kicks were the hardest; all I wanted to do was to get off the bus alive. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the third to last paragraph she wrote that, if things did not get better, “there has been talk from twenty-five or more local organizations of planning a city- wide boycott of busses.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It’s the worst thing in the world that my best friends don’t live near me, and therefore I have no one to ride the bus with. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My children weren’t old enough to ride the school bus yet, but I knew that next year, if Leigh attended the public junior high school, she would be on one of those buses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He rode the school bus home with Courtney once, felt uncomfortable at comments directed at him, and told her not to expect him to ever do that again. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

María checks where the little pisa y corre bus is located. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Leo yelled out as he and the basketball boys made it down the bus aisle. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was too beat to skateboard home and grabbed the Access-A-Ride bus. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Sunshine pours in through the windows and the bus chugs on its way. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“No bus fare. And no baseball. How’re you going to make it in this world, kid?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The bus comes around the corner and slows down to a stop. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We just had a dot-to-dot and practicing the letter M, but I did those on the bus.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman decided to give him one of his shirts, and asked him to stop by the bus station to pick up the suitcase he’d left there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked out onto the street so that no one on the sidewalk would notice as I made my way down the line of buses waiting—headlight to taillight—by the curb. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she said, “maybe I should tell you . . . Something funny back on the bus . . .” Whatever she wanted to say was interrupted by a shrill toot-toot-toot, like the sound of an owl being tortured. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The picture’s caption read: Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson, wanted for questioning in the Long Island disappearance of his mother two weeks ago, is shown here fleeing from the bus where he accosted several elderly female passengers. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Took a rush hour bus trying to get to you. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jule West Williams spent December 24 on a nineteen-hour bus ride and fell asleep early Christmas morning in a Portland, Oregon, airport hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bus engine thrummed to life and lurched into gear. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The motor rumbled like hunger in the belly of the bus. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I found a journal entry from September 1973. One month before the bus ticket.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A tour bus feeling, in a way, except the town he was touring seemed dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So how did you get kicked off the soccer team? I thought you were on the bus.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

An unknown wonder to Canton Post, who heard bus riders talk about their journeys to and from school. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

With that, the bus protest ignited by Claudette’s arrest twenty-one months earlier came to an end. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

At Slidell we changed into another Greyhound bus with a new driver—a middle-aged man, large-bellied with a heavy, jowled face filigreed with tiny red blood vessels near the surface of his cheeks. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of Kellys on bus 34, by the way. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Coasting through the school door, weaving and winding across the pavement, riding the asphalt wave, avoiding the bus waiters and the pickup parents. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I could see nurses and paramedics diving out of the way as the big bus rocketed up the drive to Emergency. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then Dicey saw that the last afternoon bus heading south to Cambridge left Wilmington at two-thirty. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s always another bus at the station” was dumb, because women aren’t buses. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Only one person was in jail after the shooting—our poor dear bus driver. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu rolled her suitcase to the subway, took it to the Forty-second Street terminal, and got on a bus to Philadelphia. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once on the bus, I start to walk to the back, but Imani pulls my arm toward a seat next to her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Chief parked the bus on the corner in the Sixties appropriate to the occasion. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Because I happened to be standing next to the bus driver, who was Black, she assumed the two of us were together and not part of the Duke fencing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He looked up to see a school bus arriving at the far end of the lot. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“You’re on the Orange bus, right? Will your driver care if I don’t have a note?” he asks. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“On the bus. You going to see your daddy?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even though my dad worked as a waiter and bus driver to put himself through school, my parents hated the idea of my sister getting a job to help with her tuition. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A toilet flushed from somewhere in the back, and a voice from behind them said, “Hey, Mikey. You had one responsibility—keep groupies off the bus. How hard is it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He waved at me through the window as his bus pulled away. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They closed the border completely, even to trucks and buses,” Baba says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our bus was stopped, and several soldiers in camouflage uniforms, carrying automatic weapons, ordered us out and lined us up alongside the body of the bus. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In bars, on street comers, in passing cars, on buses, at the beach—people grew it in their home gardens and smoked it like cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

We reach our stop and step into the cold, and the bus pulls away to reveal a lit-up tree with gold ornaments in the middle of the square. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha is slumped in the seat and I'm guessing is just happy that he didn't have to take a bus anywhere. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The farm kids on the bus are super tough and don’t talk much and don’t care about school at all. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There are only two people on the bus when I get on—Deon and Curtis. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The bus bobbed to the surface, along with a couple of capsized, half-melted canoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As the bus careened down the road, Nguyen realized even though she had a little money with her, she didn’t have her identity card. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday morning for eight weeks, I would take a bus to Ellis Park, where the team trained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until Hazel walked out of school and saw her mother’s car parked across the street that she remembered that she wasn’t going to be riding on the bus at all today. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For us, there were very few jobs as clerks, policemen, bus drivers, or insurance salesmen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor returned to the back of the bus, leaving me sitting in a kind of daze. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you were right about Silas. I sat with him on the bus today so I could apologize, and he wasn’t anything like I had been thinking.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

That bus, she saw by the sign above its front window, was going to Annapolis. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Full of outlet mail-clad drones who smell like survivors of an Axe body spray tanker truck crash with a school bus,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It is pitch black in the morning when I set off down the mountain for the school bus, leaving Ob behind, watching me out the picture window. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a way she has to, because she’s the only school bus girl in my grade. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had even set up checkpoints at the local bus and railway stations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got on the bus and watched for him the whole way, past the turn by old First Congregational, past the Alliance bridge, all along the frozen Alliance. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

But, unless the entire white section was empty, blacks alone had to get back off the bus and reenter through the rear door. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Joseph turned around and got off the bus. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I saw groups leaving for Mecca, in buses, tracks, cars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his prosthetic leg, Pop Pop can’t take two buses and walk another seven blocks to church. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We heard some acorns hit the roof of the bus as the coach called out, “How many heads, Victor?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to get stuck in the front of the bus with the chaperones.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Honey, I’m so sorry to do this to you, but I got called into an emergency meeting, and your dad already left for work. Would you mind taking the bus today?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And with that I left the building and headed to the bus stop where I would catch the free shuttle back to my dorm. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I sit with Gracie and Sheryl on the bus, none of us saying much. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

You can arrive straight from welfare or, in my case, the bus station—fresh off the boat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She marched over to her Volkswagen bus and climbed into the front passenger seat and the baggage porter slammed the door. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He nodded his head to the back of the bus. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

When he comes to the pictures of the bus in which the boy died, however, he stiffens abruptly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cars and buses pass in clouds of exhaust, and clusters of students walk by carrying steaming food bought from ven- dors along the street. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why not decorate your desktop with a school bus made from a brick!" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s on the other side of the county. There aren’t enough Muslim kids out here to carpool or hire a bus. I guess my parents got tired of driving me every morning.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At the bottom I want to sprint for the bus, but I say, "So, are you at the university?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Monday morning, the fleet of school buses came sloshing through slush. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed on an outbound Desire bus and pondered the matter while the bus swung around and headed out on Bourbon Street, passing by the Night of Joy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the colored man down the steps a the bus. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I need ten cents for the bus, ten cents for the subway, a quarter for a sandwich,’ and he would give her the rest. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After school, I walked to the bus stop by myself. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That’s how we rode the bus the rest of the way. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Some of those lucky guys, like my friend Georgia Boy, waved to us as our bus roared through the gate. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d cross the street and catch the next bus back to Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to wait with her there after school when her bus was late. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Go find a train or bus station and buy a ticket somewhere. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He pushes everyone aside and gets on the bus first, stomping to the back. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You have to relax. I’m sure she’s fine. Maybe the bus is stuck in traffic.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

That morning I took a bus downtown and walked into the Public Health Department. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the tournament, Gerald got off the bus feeling vaguely uneasy. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran into one of the other factory workers at the bus stop, who told him with a smirk that Mammachi wanted to see him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she waited at a bus stop or was at a party with boys and alcohol or was just plain alone, she felt the high alert of vigilance. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure Candy’s wanted to go to school forever. She used to stand at the window and count the yellow buses.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The facts, as Hazel had observed them, were that Jack was not on the bus, was not at his desk, and was not at recess. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some migrants realize, sitting on the bus, that they can take no more. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It became one of a row of buses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spit the nails on the bus floor. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She would wave good-bye to him, and he would stand and watch the bus until it vanished around a turn. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

With the money he had to pay rent, buy food, pay bus fare and retire portions of his ever-increasing gambling debts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus driver parked in front of the red brick building and opened the door. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The buses slow down as we approach a perimeter of chain-link fence that must be, I don’t know, at least fifteen feet high. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They came by car, bus, truck, and foot. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A million little kids were downtown with their mothers, getting on and off buses and coming in and out of stores. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

While walking toward the bus stop, Noodles had another bright idea. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Where did you learn to drive a school bus?” came the first question, from a dark-haired boy in the second row. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Over the next several days, Dasch traveled by bus across America to San Francisco. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

At this point one of the remaining lads from the bus collapsed in a shivering heap and Mitraillette sort of stalled. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Getting the bus started was easy, and we decided to take it for a spin around the garage roof. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to have to eat this on the bus,” she said. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The bus was strangely quiet, and I could feel everyone’s eyes on us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Just get on the express bus at the corner and take it crosstown to—” With no warning at all, Sally leapt from Dolores’s arms. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I practiced the words, mouthing them silently, until the driver stopped the bus and fluttered his hand over his shoulder at me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“So — so this bus,” he went on quickly, hoping to distract Stan, “did you say it goes anywhere?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Were getting on the bus,” he told me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman’s feet hurt him so, he could have cried, but he made it to the diner/bus station and looked for the man behind the counter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus stop was about five minutes away—we had to walk up a small hill to the top of our street, around the corner, and then up another small hill. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I had friends who would leap in front of a bus for me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So she left without seeing her little sisters, because she planned to come back on the bus, every weekend, to visit, and to bring money to help them out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I say, frantically trying to keep pace with the bus. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He had reason to be thankful that his dream was broken, for the bus had been nearer and more distinct "Why-because?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A few of the other buses were already pulling away. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A bus lumbers along Flatbush Avenue, and the few joggers going in and out of the park barely notice me and Ma as we emerge from the guardhouse. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Band buses tended to be real cozy, especially after we had performed and were coming back to school at night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first time was the day after one of the colored girls from Central had been surrounded by a mob at the bus stop. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us stood in the weedy grass along the edge of the parking lot until a long yellow bus dragged itself up from the street. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"Yeah," Ty wheezed, his back aching as if a school bus had fallen from the sky and landed right on him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bus had been, and was, very quiet. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"Eliot,” Mrs. Sen asked him while they were sitting on the bus, "will you put your mother in a nursing home when she is old?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I thought we were hung up for sure, but the bus sprang forward and jolted back onto the road. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I rush to get ready for school so I can go down to the Hideout before walking to the bus stop. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Will we get to take a bus to school instead of walking?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We will sit by him on the bus. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In his pockets the officer found $112, a bus ticket for Petersburg, Illinois, and documents that identified him as Thomas Dowell, an obscure local jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind howled about the bus, and the wipers slooshed heavily back and forth across the windshield, smearing the city into a red and yellow neon wetness. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Why take a bus and worry about which stop to get off? From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out there was another girl on the bus named Ashley. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had to get up at five A.M. to catch a bus to Mrs. Dawson’s from Wilmington and was often exhausted when I got there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window Chacko could see the tops of buses, luggage in their luggage racks, as they thundered by. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was observing the formation they had and almost ran into a soldier who was making his way to the bus. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A sophomore from Lake Windsor High was killed stepping off of her school bus last year. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on the number five bus, headed downtown, laughing at some girl whose mother was known to reach for anything—cable wires, extension cords, pots, pans. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother had simply met her at the bus stop every day. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was late December, the sun, pouring in through the windows of the bus as it waited in the car park, had heated it up like a greenhouse. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, he leaves, hoping to catch a bus back to the railroad tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By the time we get home, I’m feeling depressed about taking the bus again. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Norman Bates, the driver, started the engine and our bus moved off. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"I can at least save for a bus or train ticket to Bengaluru, right? It's close by. I saw it on a map once. Or maybe I could even walk there..." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The bus stopped in front of a posada and many of the passengers got down, and a lot of the baggage was unstrapped from the roof from under the big tarpaulins and lifted down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The buses were air- conditioned, had televisions, a VCR, and lights that we could turn on and off at our seats! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sank back into my seat and the bus rolled through the night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

What if the only free seat is up in the front next to the bus driver? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I crawled in bed, with only a few hours before I’d have to get up and catch the school bus. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those are largely people who never truly get off the bus but shoot pictures through the windows. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Roy observed that he had exactly four minutes to reach the bus pickup zone. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bus crawling out of the bus station, a strange bus. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

What had happened at the lockers, on the bus, on the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later that day Hall took a bus to the University of New Mexico campus. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please understand me, General. Millions of people take public transport every day. No harm comes to them. I know you’re worried, and I’m certainly checking all the buses, but isn’t it too soon to panic?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was on West Oriole Avenue, the same street as the bus stop where he’d first spotted the running boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take the bus home because we think it’ll be so much fun to take the bus home, knowing that we are rich now and can take a cab anytime we want. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s one thing to ride a bus, but they eventually had to get off and face the music. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We carted everything we had from town to town by bus—clothes, books, hats, and these huge quilts my mother had brought from Europe. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid had taken the bus to Prosper City and was standing in front of the First Avenue Jewelry store. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

"He's probably just—I don't know, maybe he met another freaking Isaac on the bus and he's stuck in Bizarro World." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

One evening, he asked if he could walk me back to where I was living instead of my taking the bus. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were both walking to a bus stop when my mom tripped and stumbled into the street just as a bus was approaching. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Before leaving the bus terminal, I stopped at an army recruiting stand and asked how old you had to be to join the army. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I reached down and patted him, lying in a duffel on a bus next to his sick boy. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So when the weather was nice, instead of taking the bus home, most kids walked a few blocks from school to where the shops were. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

By choice, the seating arrangement on the bus was integrated: Blacks sat by whites, and vice versa. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He began pulling stingers out of his face, working down, and taking his time looking back up the bluff at Toomer’s bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I met Joseph at the end of the buses, where he waited for me. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

And the bus just rolls and rolls into the lightening sky. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the bus and shivered until the heaters started working, wondering what he was doing, where he was going now. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Before long, my brother and I were on our way to boarding school, which was about three hours away by bus. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I walked her to the bus stop,” I say. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Regardless. It looks like Miss Hennepin came around to our point of view. Starting tomorrow morning, you’re back on the bus.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d stack our gifts—along with the sacks of flour and sugar, blankets, and trunks that other families were taking— on top of the bus in a great towering pile. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ear and Eye waved at the bus as it flew away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tragic accident, known as the Carrollton bus disaster, was one of the worst in U.S. history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I leave the plank, close the shed, and grab my backpack before walking down to the stop; the bus comes right as I arrive, opening its doors like an invitation. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Ours was a double-decker bus, which was exciting in itself. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In Montgomery, students stopped one another at bus corners and by their lockers, saying things like “Have you ever heard of Claudette Colvin?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He probably died on August 18, 112 days after he’d walked into the wild, 19 days before six Alaskans would happen across the bus and discover his body inside. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ann Wilson was seated in the colored section of the nearly empty Trailways bus with two-year-old Lydia sprawled asleep across her lap. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him to tell me about the bus accident. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The boys arrived in Cleveland by bus on the evening before play began at the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A torrent of children’s screams, white noise on Libby’s bus journey home, threatens to override key aspects of her story. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, they gathered their books, got up, and walked in silence to the bus stop. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were sitting on cartons or mill-ing around, with their backs to the wind, waiting to see which friends or relatives might be on this bus. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to get in my car and wait for the activity buses to leave. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Before the tears come, I dash out of the shop, down the street, past the bus turnoff, past our neighbors’ houses and up the stairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed eager to get away from us and back into their bus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily and James sat in disappointed silence as they rode the bus back to their building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I see him all the time,” said the bus driver, smiling. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Few places are far from human noise—cars, buses, motorcycles, tractors, lorries. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make it to the bus stop just as the bus is pulling up. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I can visualize pulling into the bus station in Montgomery, Alabama, to discover the unsettling quietness. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Also there were city buses that stopped at this corner to take people to homeless shelters. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand! These aren’t just any children. The Masks would fall all over themselves to get them. Besides”— Father looked embarrassed—“they’ve never been on a bus.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every head in our bus turns to stare as we drive by, and I’m taken by how huge the space is. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“How the hell did we go from talking on the bus to having two kids, Sonny?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The buses from The King’s Academy roll into the parking lot at dismissal time, just as Mami beeps and waves at me from a loaner car that I don’t recognize. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Park wasn't in English or history, and he wasn't on the bus after school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

You used to pass by it as a South Side kid riding the bus to high school, peering mutely out the window at the people who strode like titans to their jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had a class on Thursday afternoons and was not scheduled to be home until four, the time the bus would normally drop me off. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night was near when I finally caught the bus going toward town. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day when Liyana returned from school by public bus, a lady she’d never seen before was sitting in their living room on the low couch. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You all have your tickets?” the bus driver asked before they began the journey. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Book Girl looks around the bus, and our eyes meet. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

By the time the bus finally lurches to our stop, I’m more than happy to get on it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She did not see that I twisted my nose bouncing forward on a crowded bus in San Francisco. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That undercover agent would be prowling the bus station all afternoon looking for him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toomer rubbed his hands along the shoulders of the big dogs who had commandeered positions by the windows facing the river side of the bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for having to get up to catch the school bus at six-thirty in the morning, I liked high school right off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With a roar of the big motor, the bus lurched through the intersection, missing a dump truck by inches. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She stepped down onto the pavement and the bus belched black smoke and roared away. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Mom was waiting for me in front of the school along with all the other parents when the bus arrived. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The driver waited for him to cross in front of the bus before pulling slowly away from the curb and heading off in the other direction. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

On Christmas Eve, the three of us took a bus to the Wilmington train station to meet Enrique, who was coming home for a few days for the holidays. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The bus kids were released as a group, while other children waited with Ms. Udell to meet up with their parents, grandparents, or babysitters. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The driver brought his bus to a landing outside a high gray wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At Chanting Falls, we stood on the pavement as the bus roared off. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When the bus arrives, I clench my hands into fists. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The inside of this bus is humid, and the windows are foggy, so I open mine about an inch, relishing the cold snap of fresh air. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He also put himself through school, which meant working odd jobs as a waiter and a bus driver to pay his rent and his tuition. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I kept to busy streets and managed to avoid getting mugged on the way to the bus terminal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock five school buses left Amity Harbor with their windshield wipers batting ice from the windshields and their headlights casting into the snowfall. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He took a bus about 220 miles south to Jinan, a city of five million, and spent five days searching out more Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The idea of a bus boycott had been gaining momentum throughout the black community for months. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

One of them kindly helps an elderly woman onto the bus. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Only minutes from the bus junction, my brothers pointed to a long building, many times larger than our home and all of the Mahasreh houses put together. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“There were maybe thirty people on that little bus! So much fun!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A year later in Alabama’s capital city, Montgomery, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white man and move to the back of a city bus. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished, we looked at the bus driver for a tense second. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She decided to change her shoes because they didn’t match her dress, and left to catch her bus. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just below my window were dozens of men and women in full uniform, escorting the bus in at a brisk jog. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They were safe now, on a tour bus with Flush, of all places. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bus hisses at the curb where I’m waiting, and the doors swing open. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not legal anymore, but I still have to take a bus to get to school because Mama didn’t want me going to the school right around the corner from where we live. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

All the other buses are loading up except for us. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I always pick the biggest, meanest kid on the bus and punch him in the face, just for fun.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turn and run outside to where the buses pick us up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When we found seats, Cecile was still with the bus driver, arguing with him. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nunu had completely run out of steam a half block from the bus stop, so Alex carried her the rest of the way home. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Why do the white people write ‘Colored’ on all the ugly drinking fountains, the dingy restrooms, and the back of the buses? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was walk constantly until you could catch a bus, but keep on the move unless you have business somewhere. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted, “Going to the bus!” so Mom and Dad knew I was leaving. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They find coconuts to sell for bus fare and go home. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The bus pulled out of the station, and we headed through the slick streets of Manhattan. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The one I told you about at school. The one who went running by your bus stop that day.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Mr. Habazz said, “Okay, bus thirty-two kids, time to sit down. Back to our normally scheduled programming. Silent reading or page ninety in the math book.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Outside, the crosstown bus hissed past on the wet street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus boycott was a way of expressing anger at the system at last. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The woman who had been serving drinks came out wiping her hands on her apron and talked to somebody inside the bus. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The bus driver turns the bus off and takes out his newspaper while he waits for new passengers to load in. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Biddy wrapped up in her coat and didn’t say nothing to nobody on the bus. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As we hopped off our bus, I started to wonder if the old men waiting to help teach us had originally taken up the sport as soon as the ban was lifted. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He’s always reading books on the bus when our team travels. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been forced to lay off drivers and shut down several bus routes just to stay in business. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They hurdled flowers and stuffed animals, pounding down the brick-laid sidewalk until they reached a wall of people lining up to board a bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Yes...but the bus driver lied and said none of us were from there...He's a hero, isn't he, Amma?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As the bus lurched forward again, Cara lowered her voice and said, “Can you guys keep a secret?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

At the bus stop, her twin brothers don’t pay any attention to her. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Traffic was being held up, a bus arrived at the stop across the street, it stopped, and the bus driver got off to help the boy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They returned with bad news: the buses and trains were filled; people were ignoring the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Symbolically, a Desire bus hurtled past me, its diesel exhaust almost strangling me. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had been drinking and was loud, and the bus driver decided to put them off the bus. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I beg Dad to drive me to school the next morning so I don’t have to face Nora on the bus. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was a day that had started with such high hopes: the varsity hoops team busing to Salt Lake for the state tournament. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to take the bus after school and meet her at the store. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The late bus doesn’t leave for another half hour, so I guess I’ll be a theater groupie. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, we ended up on a two-track path that the bus could never have gotten out of if the path didn’t double back on itself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But what if the other kids at the bus stop don’t know about it? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

By the time we get on the bus, my back aches, my hands are cracked, and my eyes burn from all the cleaning products. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Before she turns around to walk to her bus, she gives me a signal that I know means “Call me after and tell me everything...or else!” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

As the bus proceeded, the apprentice came around to collect the fare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had skipped the team bus; Sean rode home with my mom and me after our loss instead of with his parents. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It was raining that first Thursday, and I had missed the school bus home. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a bumblebee, buzzing around with a bunch of stingers on the inside of it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you made it. How was the bus ride?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bus station saying good-bye, it felt not quite real yet. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour and a half into our trip, the faint smell of salt pours in through the tiny cracks in the bus windows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He said the Butler on Rampart Street was as good as any, and told me what bus to take from downtown. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors closed behind him as he stepped down into the street and the bus pulled away again. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Off the bus at the cluster stop I take a chance. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When we reached the Throgs Neck Bridge, Doug Swieteck started “One Thousand Bottles of Beer on the Wall,” until Mrs. Baker came down the bus aisle and didn’t need to say anything. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had been planted on the front lawn of the high school, between the road and the bus lanes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They played cards on the bus; each day meant a continuation of the day before. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, after school, I caught the bus to the funeral home. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I left the house at seven- thirty to walk to the front of the development and catch the bus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he realized that if he hadn’t had a tantrum about riding on the tailboard, he would have been on that bus, too. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

How every time I do, I picture my mom getting on that bus to Florida? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmine was watching television when she saw that police had arrested a suspect in the bus passenger burning that had been all over the news. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They rode the bus all the time, no problem. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

After his mother’s funeral, Lorena’s dad took the bus from Guerrero all the way to the Arizona border, where he met a man from his hometown who everyone had recommended. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I start up conversations in lines and on the bus and with cashiers. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much so that a lot of the students that live in what they call the “’hood” take two or three buses just to get to school every day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She got off the bus and walked slowly home, Tyler’s words buzzing in her head. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I tag walls and windows, mailboxes, manhole covers, sidewalks, doors, poles—anything that doesn't move, plus buses and boxcars, which do. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She got to the bus stop fifteen minutes early. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Here comes the school bus,” he whispered loudly in alarm. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Belching exhaust, the driver saluting or warning with a series of blasts on his horn, it is an old army bus, the official name brushed over with paint that doesn't quite match. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Not to a bus. Or a car,” Jimmy said, swinging the tire iron. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She stood a step back from the window and thought in his direction as hard as she could, as she always did on days they could not walk from the bus to class together. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath to calm myself and walked to the road, craning my neck to look for her bus. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Dude, what’d you do to that poor guy? I heard there was guts all over the bus.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, the graffiti is a terrible way to start the year, but I have to deal with Tobias every single day on the bus by myself. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But I managed to keep running after the bus for a long way and I crossed 6 side roads before it turned down another street and I couldn’t see it anymore. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Where else does the sidewalk tremble under your feet from the rumble of subways underground, and trucks and city buses up top? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the only trick-or-treaters to arrive by bus, and they were among the only children who weren’t white. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

On rainy mornings the school bus stinks of boys, burps, and ashtrays. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The City Lines bus company declared the proposed changes illegal and said that, unfortunately, their hands were tied. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I live close to Peninsula Park. Looks like we’ll be bus buddies.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A bus kicked up dust on the road after letting off a crowd of passengers. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were walking home, because Alex knew dogs weren’t allowed on the bus. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Can I take the bus down to the rec this morning?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the end of the video, a fellow classmate asked the question, “They fought racism by riding the bus?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The buses and most of the cars were gone by 3:15. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Come to my house after school tomorrow,” Howard said on the bus the next morning. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When I step off this bus I will hit the ground moving. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Whereas in New Orleans he paid little attention to his brother, in Mississippi everyone who boarded the bus at the various little towns had a smile and a greeting for everyone else. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Frank’s bus left, I thought about walking home. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

One by one, wizards and witches in dressing gowns and slippers descended from the upper floors to leave the bus. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Under the auspices of the man I had boarded the bus with, I was able to pass some of the roadblocks for free. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I stepped off the school bus, I decided not to go straight home. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hazel floated onto the bus, sat down in her usual seat, and pulled out a book. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

With Gum Baby on my shoulders, I walked backward toward the front of the bus, keeping him in sight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t cost anything to ride the bus at night, so I hop on. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe the bus driver would let him on the bus because he was so smart and would do tricks for all the kids. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On that bus, it was hot and dusty, and we sometimes stopped at a restaurant. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is fear in their eyes when we come charging off our bus, whooping our war cry. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something crazy like a school bus falling from the sky. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her eye went back up to the top of the list, found Wilmington and traced the buses leaving for the eastern shore. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a substitute for a limousine. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

On the days he succeeded in getting outside the gate, he waited for a bus to stop, then hung on its back rails. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Together, they take injured migrants back to their hometowns in Central America when going by bus isn’t feasible. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I know. I got away from them by escaping on the bus.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived this way through the turn of summer, and only the following October did he reach a town big enough to have a regular bus station. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus steers around potholes the size of a person and parts from broken-down buses. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am waiting for the soldier to step off the bus. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I walked up the aisle and tapped the bus driver on the shoulder. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, about an hour after we moved in on the first day, we were back on the bus, riding to the gymnastics training hall for our first workout in Rio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It's so much more comfortable than the bus. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am sure that some of those men on the bus had the same thoughts that I had as I made that journey. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, I take the same buses Olga rode to work the day she died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the bus ride home, Emily flipped through The Maltese Falcon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes before the yellow school buses arrive, bringing the crowd here. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It's just that we don't have a car and were going to have to catch the bus to the park. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

If I walk slow enough, most of the buses are gone by the time I get outside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe this guy would feel sorry for me and put me on a bus to Grand Rapids and I wouldn’t have to do any more doggone walking. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

However, both saw promise in the dramatic arrest, jailing, and trial of a fifteen-year-old bus protester. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It would be more than a clue; it would be like booking anyone looking for them on a chartered bus ride straight to the hideaway. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday afternoon Claudia told Jamie at the school bus stop that she wanted him to sit with her because she had something important to tell him. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking that his escape route had been cut off, he returned to the bus—a reasonable course of action, given his topographical ignorance. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace repeats this incident to Cordelia, next morning, in the school bus, her voice a near whisper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most had been brought inside the bus station the morning after their arrest, and in an upstairs office, a makeshift court had been arranged. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I try to tell them about the bus, but explosions go off and thick white smoke engulfs us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Caputo moved quickly through the chaotic streets to one of these spots and crowded onto one of several waiting buses, packing in with about seventy other journalists and U.S. embassy officials. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A velvet curtain concealed the back of the bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the local bus home, everything still shone in the light of Omer’s smile. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All it means is that Miles meets me at my locker after school every day. And he walks me to the bus stop sometimes. We hold hands.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The three Greystone kids always raced each other home when they got off the school bus, and Finn always won. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

That Friday I waited by the front window for Maribel’s bus to bring her home from school. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She stares at a bus lurching across the road. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Curtis is in one of the front rows of the bus. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My feet move like lead on the way back to the bus stop. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I won’t have to get on the school bus no more. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I am, however, going to suspend you from the bus.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lucinda, you may not cross the bridge again on your own, or take the bus, or do anything else without my permission.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When it’s time for me to leave for school, I sit on the curb half a block away from the bus stop and the other kids. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

James looked at the parking meters, the liquor store across the street, the bus stop in front of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I ran so as not to miss the bus. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

You could sit next to a ghost at a bus stop and never know it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Audrey sped past me and I hurried after her, going the long way to the bus stop. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A bus was coming up the block, the roaring of its engine like a bear waking from its sleep. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Traffic could go only one way, and no one was allowed to make a U-turn, so even those cars that had already picked up their riders were stuck, waiting for the buses to load. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two ballpoint pens with silent streetscapes and red London buses that floated up and down in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d spent most of the bus ride home thinking about jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My roommate and I head to the very back of the bus. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Once I boarded the bus and we got underway I just looked out the window and watched the country roll by. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z