Stilton, Geronimo
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2020
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Summary: "Sylvia Samantha Wright is very good at finding--she just doesn't know exactly what all her 'junk' is good for, not yet at least. But when completely ridiculous disaster strikes, she springs into action and uses her junk to create solutions to the town's troubles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAYSummary: South Central L.A. junk dealer Fred Sanford and his partner-in-grime, son Lamont, are constantly struggling to make ends meet, but Fred always has just one more get-rich-quick scheme up his sleeve, sometimes involving best friend Grady. When he's not haggling over his empire of junk, he's sparring with his sister-in-law, the cantankerous, Bible-thumping Aunt Esther.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SANRichey, Ellinor
Summary: "What happens when our most precious belongings... no longer belong? When something we loved suddenly becomes junk, a powerful energy is unleashed. One night, ice-skating prodigy Florence Sato is overwhelmed by pressure and throws away her skates. This fateful moment accidentally summons a "junkwraith," a terrifying ghost which seeks revenge for its abandonment by attacking the memories of its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RICHRegan, Dana
Summary: "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?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN REGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN REGMcMullan, Kate.
Summary: A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins/HarperFestival 2005
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Summary: Simple rhyming text follows a child who loves to play in the park and picks up the litter to help keep it clean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012
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Summary: "Manny and his friend Gertie join forces to clean up their local park--because every superhero needs a planet worth saving"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DIPGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot wind up at a garbage dump when Andrew's latest invention, the Goa Constrictor, shrinks them to the size of beetles and swallows them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREMcMullan, Kate.
Summary: A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanne Cotler Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCMCarey, Edward
Summary: As the Iremonger family begins a search for a new home in London, residents of the city begin to notice strange incidents, including missing persons, strange objects appearing, a creeping darkness, and lots of rats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARGutman, Dan
Summary: A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTPosner-Sanchez, Andrea.
Summary: Oscar the Grouch doesn't normally like visitors. But--what's that? You want to see what's inside his trash can? Okay! With plenty of alliteration to help children learn their letters and to make reading aloud a blast, Oscar enthusiastically takes readers through the alphabet with his treasure trove of trash!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: After discovering that a green sea turtle was harmed by plastic in the ocean, twin mice Sydney and Simon come up with a creative campaign to increase recycling and reduce the amount of trash created in their home, school, and town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE REYLeon, Donna.
Summary: A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEOCarey, Edward
Summary: "At the Iremonger mansion, set in the trash heaps of an alternate Victorian London, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Will outcast grandson Clod--transformed intoa gold coin--and servant girl Lucy (now a discarded button) be found and returned to human form?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARDewdney, Anna
Summary: Llama Llama and his friends learn about art, community, and celebrating nature when they rally the town to clean up the pond in time for the annual Boat Float.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: Trash trucks roam the city streets gobbling up all the garbage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1997