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.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Brightview | E WIN | Book | 30504000013420 | Picture Books |