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Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community,...
Author
Series
Junior monster scouts volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Junior Monster Scouts have a new grump in town to contend with: Baroness Von Grumpier! A cousin of Baron Von Grump, she's even grumpier, and even more diabolical! And her sidekick is a toad ... a very warty, always frowning, not-ever-happy toad. Baroness Von Grumpier has come to visit while her cousin goes on vacation. She wants to tidy up his windmill, but when she takes out all of his garbage and dumps it into one big, stinking trash heap,...
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
4) Trash
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
5) About face
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti's work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he's seen before.
6) Trashy town
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.
7) I stink!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Nana had never heard about Christmas. When the toys of the Westerfeld Waste Transfer and Recycling Center tell her about the one magical night of the year when Santa Claus delivers toys to good boys and girls, she insists on writing him her own letter. But when Santa arrives with their gifts in tow, the Forklift of Doom mistakes Santa's sleigh for garbage. Can Nana and her trash friends band together to save Christmas?
Author
Series
Down in the dumps volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A rotten banana, a broken teapot, and a blob of goo living in the town dump help a new arrival find his way home.
10) Trash vs. Trucks
Author
Series
Down in the dumps volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Westerfield Dump is scheduled to be relocated by the Trucks, so Nana, Ms. Kettle, and Moreland come up with a plan to save their smelly home.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mike offers to help his friend pick up trash around the neighborhood. But when a rubber duck gets stuck in the garbage truck and trash starts to fall out and litter the town, will Mike and his friends be able to get the duck unstuck?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Publisher
Bruño/Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"En el extraño colegio de A.J. pasa algo muy raro...La profe de plástica lleva un vestido hecho con trapos y unos guantes como los que se ponen las madres para sacar algo súper caliente del horno. ¡Pero lo peor es que le gusta coleccionar basura!"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Manny and his friend Gertie join forces to clean up their local park--because every superhero needs a planet worth saving"--
Every weekend, Manny and Gertie put on their capes to defeat earth-threatening dangers. WE ARE MIGHTY! WE ARE AWESOME! WE ARE TOUGH! WE ARE SMART! Stampeding dinosaurs, ferocious lions, and snapping, snarling veggie monsters are no match for this Super Duo. But when Manny and Gertie come face-to-face with swarms of litter...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tom, Lucy, and Mr. Little must get to Trash City to deliver a message to their friends, the Trash Tinies. But there is a terrible storm! Will the Littles get to the city below the garbage dump? And what will they find when they get there?
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo and his friend Hercule Poirat venture into the sewers to find the origin of the horrible stink that is driving all the mice away from New Mouse City--and learn an important lesson about recycling."--Provided by publisher.
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