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Here comes the garbage barge! Cover Image Book

Here comes the garbage barge! / written by Jonah Winter ; illustrated by Red Nose Studio.

Winter, Jonah, 1962- (Author). Red Nose Studio, (illustrator.). Red Nose Studio. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0375852182
  • ISBN: 0375952187
  • ISBN: 9780375852183
  • ISBN: 9780375952180
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2010]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 4-8.
AD670L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.8 0.5 135017.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning LG 3.8 0.5 135017.

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Subject:
Barges > Fiction.
Barges > Juvenile fiction.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Fiction.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels > Fiction.
Voyages and travels > Juvenile fiction.
Islip (N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Islip (N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.

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  • 40 of 42 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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