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Title Here comes the garbage barge! / written by Jonah Winter ; illustrated by Red Nose Studio.
Author Winter, Jonah, 1962- author.
Publisher New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2010]
Copyright ©2010
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm
Edition First edition.
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 HF-Picture Books  JP WIN Nearby on shelf  30632002415507 09-16-21  AVAILABLE
Note "Moral - Don't make so much garbage!!!"--Inside backcover.
NOTE Accelerated Reader LG 3.8 0.5 135017
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.
Audience Ages 4-8. Schwartz & Wade.
AD670L Lexile
Awards "Best illustrated children's book awards, The New York Times book review"--Cover.
Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- Juvenile fiction.
Barges -- Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre Picture books for children.
Subject Islip (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Other corporate author Red Nose Studio, illustrator.
ISBN 9780375852183
0375852182
9780375952180
0375952187
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