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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 13
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Lonely and brooding, Dave has lost his moorings. His wife, Bootsy, is dead, and his daughter is away at college. When a parish priest asks him to help a family in need, Dave discovers that they hold the clues to a decades-old mystery: the disappearance of blues legend Junior Crudup while he was serving time in Angola prison. Soon, Dave's investigation leads him to confront New Iberia's movers and shakers, and a seductive woman who has been his nemesis...
2) I stink!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Clifford, the big red dog, and his friends celebrate Christmas and even get to meet Santa Claus.
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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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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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"--
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My weird school volume 4
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
7) About face
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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.
8) Trashy town
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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The US leads the world in many ways, including the amount of waste we produce. Although we constitute less than 5 percent of the world's population, we use up to 30 percent of the world's resources, and per capita we generate the most trash. Throwaway Nation illuminates the problem and suggests ways we can mitigate this environmental disaster.
12) Trash
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
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Sang Ly struggles to survive by picking through garbage in Cambodia's largest municipal dump. Under threat of eviction by an embittered old drunk who is charged with collecting rents from the poor of Stung Meanchey, Sang Ly embarks on a desperate journey to save her ailing son from a life of ignorance and poverty.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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"An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life -- throwing things out -- and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture -- the trash it produces -- and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century,...
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[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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On a global scale, humans create around 2.6 trillion pounds of waste every year. None of this trash is harmlesslandfills and dumps leak toxic chemicals into soil and groundwater, while incinerators release toxic gases and particles into the air. What can we do to keep garbage from swallowing up Earth? Reducing, reusing, recycling, and upcycling are some of the answers. Learn more about the work of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Ocean...