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1) I stink!
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
3) Trashy town
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gilly, the trash man, cleans up his town.
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Dora the explorer volume 24
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While cleaning up the beach, Dora and Boots find a magic crown and return it to the mermaid Mariana, who needs it to stop a mean octopus from dumping garbage in the Mermaid Kingdom.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Fly Guy and Buzz visit a landfill to discover where their garbage goes. They learn all about garbage trucks, trash sorting, bacteria, and how landfills can be more environmentally friendly. They also visit a recycling plant to learn about how recycling programs get started, the recycling cycle, and what happens when trash isn't properly disposed of. There are even tips for how readers can help keep our planet healthy! --Publisher's description.
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English
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Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Earth has a trash problem. How can you help? Join Tyler in learning about recycling. Find out what happens to things when they are recycled. Do your part to be a planet protector! Discover how to reduce, reuse, recycle, and more with Tyler and Trina in the Planet Protectors series, part of the Cloverleaf Books™ collection. These nonfiction picture books feature kid-friendly text and illustrations to make learning fun!
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A garbage truck driver describes the different parts of her truck and explains what types of jobs she performs and the types of materials she hauls. Includes fun facts about garbage trucks and their many uses, a glossary, truck diagram, and details on where to find more information about garbage trucks.
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My weird school volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Introduces the problems of global waste disposal, describing the hazards of toxins associated with landfills, plastics floating in the oceans, and debris orbiting the planet, with some of the solutions proposed by scientists. --Publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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" Rumble! A large garbage truck comes down the street on its way to pick up trash. What else does a garbage truck do throughout the day? What equipment helps the truck do its job? Where does a truck take the trash? Take young readers behind the scenes to discover how waste collectors use garbage trucks from sunrise to sunset. Engaging, leveled text and photos showing the trucks in action combine to help readers learn more about these important community...
17) About face
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English
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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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English
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Our communities would be a very dirty place without the help from sanitation workers. This fascinating nonfiction book allows readers to appreciate the hard work that goes into waste management and allows for opportunities to compare and contrast sanitation from the past with the present. Helpful text, colorful images, and intriguing facts aid in teaching readers about garbage dumps, landfills, trash compactors, and recycling.
20) WALL-E
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Left alone on an ecologically-ravaged Earth for hundreds of years, a garbage-collecting robot finally finds love and the solution to make the world habitable again, but must go to the farthest reaches of space to make it happen.
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