Here comes the garbage barge!

Title
Here comes the garbage barge!

Personal Author EPSB
Jonah, Winter

Summary
In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the east coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.

Other Title
Garbage barge!

Year Published
2010

Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 30 cm.

Note
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.

Program Information
Accelerated Reader LG 3.8 0.5 135017
 
Waste and Our World Gr. 4+

Subject
Voyages and travel -- Fiction.
 
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Fiction.
 
Barges -- Fiction.
 
Travel in literature -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Islip (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Added Corporate Author
Red Nose Studio.

Summary
In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the east coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.

ISBN
9780375852183
 
9780375952180

Publisher
New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2010.


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