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1) Trashed
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Graphic novel based on the author's time spent working on a garbage truck.
2) Queen Serene
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"Meet Queen. She drives a garbage truck in Garnet, way out on the plains of West Texas. Tall and beautiful, Queen wonders what will become of her life. Her marriage did not work out. Her cold husband locked her out. He dumped her boxes in front of the house with a note. She had few job skills. Yet like a tender plant after a terrible winter, Queen puts down roots and grows. Her ex-brother-in-law gets her a job with the City of Garnet Solid Waste Disposal...
3) Bariloche
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"Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoon and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life seems mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through the puzzles, Demetrio inspects and sorts through his own memories from the mysterious land of Patagonia. A parable of memory and deterioration, Andrés Neuman's Bariloche juxtaposes the astonished memories of youth with...
4) Fences
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In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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Janitors of the post-apocalypse volume 1
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The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know--your standard apocalypse. The Krakau's first impulse was to turn around and go home. (After all, it's hard to have diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat your...
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"Saga of Brutes pulls together three fantastic stories "Between Dog Fights and Pig Slaughter, " "The Dirty Work of Others, " and "Bone Char, " published for the first time as a single volume. Ana Paula Maia's narrative follows the invisible workingmen who carry society's burdens like Atlas. They exist in badness and fraternity, in high heat and intense speed. In the end, these heroes of vile circumstance are the soot-covered supermen who mine the...
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"They come into our homes. They see us in our most fragile moments. Plumbers are a fixture in our lives. When a toilet clogs, a faucet leaks, or a sewer line plugs, we call those unsung heroes, desperately seeking help. They scoop out our poop and pull underwear, toothbrushes and cotton balls out of our toilets, doing whatever it takes to get the job done. On a late Wednesday evening, after my toilet clogged, I asked our plumber to share his top...
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"We can thank modern plumbing and sewage systems for the comfort and convenience of having water when and where we want it. Most importantly, we can thank them for indoor toilets. Clean, flowing water is something many of us take for granted until a pipe bursts, a drain clogs, or a storm drain overflows. This book helps readers learn how valuable plumbers and sewage workers are to our daily lives, even though we often don't see the work they do. Full-color...
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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....
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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.
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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...
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Black Authors: Youth Nonfiction (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - Youth
K&T Celebrates Black History Month
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Black History Month - Youth
K&T Celebrates Black History Month
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
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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.
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