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Don't Spit in the Wind volume 1
Language
English
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"One man's trash is another man's living. Since earth became inhospitable, humanity escaped ages ago to live in a space station floating above the atmosphere. Now Travis and his crew of garbage men are tasked with cleaning up mountains of toxic waste, working for a company called Atomic Bros INC., to create a 'Clear World'. But when one of Travis' crew members goes missing near an old nuclear facility Travis' job becomes a bit more complicated."--Amazon....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Charting New York's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, an anthropologist who spent ten years with sanitation workers of all ranks reveals what it takes for the Department of Sanitation to manage Gotham's garbage.
3) Trashed
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Series
Language
English
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Graphic novel based on the author's time spent working on a garbage truck.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Do you hear that? It's a garbage truck! Learn all about being a garbage collector. Readers will get the inside scoop on the different parts of the job, the machines grabage collectors use, and how people get this exciting job"--
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Series
Language
English
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Sanitation workers aren't afraid to get their hands dirty in order to keep their communities clean. Readers discover the hard work that goes into a career as a sanitation worker through informative text and fun fact boxes. A graphic organizer is also included to provide additional facts about sanitation workers and the important tasks they perform. Full-color photographs allow readers to see what a workday is like for a sanitation worker. How can...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Little readers will learn all about what garbage collectors do, where they work, and why they are important in our communities. Very simple text combined with correlating and colorful images will both inform and strengthen reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author
Series
Language
English
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"In Get a Job at the Garbage Dump, fictional character Jeremiah Oliver Baumgartner (Job, for short) introduces readers to a wide variety opportunities found (through his adventure and misadventures) at a garbage dump. Back matter includes creative writing prompts and activities"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.
14) Clean
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A garbage collector must reconcile with his troubled past in order to fulfill his dream of leading a quiet life.
19) Wordless
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After helping Khaya, the Word of Life, escape from her prison, seventeen-year-old trash collector Tavin Barnes joins her on the run, attempting to prevent Khaya's captors from using the Words for world domination"--
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Live through a stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck that likes to eat alphabet soup. Follow Mr. Gilly around Trashy Town until his truck is full of glorious garbage. Big diesel engines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel out of business until he finds just the job to prove their worth. An old tricycle is mistaken for trash, but just before being crushed for scrap metal, it magically speeds away on an adventure through...