Here Comes the Garbage Barge!

by Jonah Winter

Other authorsRed Nose Studio (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2010

Library's review

Amazing photography and artwork tell the story of the Garbage Barge. What would a town do with 3,168 tons of trash? Meet the Garbage Barge and Cap’m Duffy and find out! Author’s Note.

Lexile

L

Publication

Schwartz & Wade (2010), Edition: Illustrated, 40 pages

Description

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.

Language

Original language

English

Pages

40

Physical description

40 p.; 11.81 inches

ISBN

0375852182 / 9780375852183

DDC/MDS

387
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