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1) I stink!
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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
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Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.
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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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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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Amelia Bedelia and her friends need a clubhouse for their new Explorers' Club. One day they discover an empty lot with a huge tree right in the middle of it. It's the perfect spot to build a cool tree house for club headquarters. The lot is a big mess, so Amelia Bedelia, her friends, and their parents pitch in and clean it up.
11) Trash trouble
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On a field trip to the Nature Center, Three J leads his second-grade classmates on a mission to pick up as much trash as posssible after they find a bird caught in a discarded lunch bag.
12) Dump dog
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The squeaky clean town of Lumpville, located in the middle of a huge, smelly dump where a monster and a little dog live, learns a lesson on the value of cleanliness when the dog accidentally causes the monster to destroy the town.
13) The mystery box
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A rotten banana, a broken teapot, and a blob of goo living in the town dump help a new arrival find his way home.
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"Nasir and Nadir are making a robot for their school's junk model competition. They must use garbage that can be recycled. So just what can they use, and what will happen to the garbage they throw away? Follow their story to find out why we should use less plastic, what happens at landfill sites, and how we can reduce, reuse, and recycle"--Provided by publisher.
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Muddy the raccoon loves leftovers---and he likes to eat them on plates. "Our son's a picky eater," his parents say. When Muddy gets caught, the oldest, wisest raccoon insists he make amends. But when all 27 raccoons enter the restaurant to return Muddy's stolen plates, what happens next is not what anyone expects.
16) Trash vs. Trucks
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The Westerfield Dump is scheduled to be relocated by the Trucks, so Nana, Ms. Kettle, and Moreland come up with a plan to save their smelly home.
19) Lungdon
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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.