Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2008., Metropolitan Books Call No: LIfe Science Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes ways that societies all over the world deal--and do not deal--with human waste, and covers the sewers of Paris, London, and New York City; examines the public toilets in India, China's biogas digesters, third world sanitation movements, the U.S. military laser elimination methods, and more.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village wants to talk about this shameful problem. But Latika has had enough. When a government representative visits their village, she sees her chance to make one of her dreams come true: the construction of public toilets, which would be safer for everybody in her village. Burying the Moon shines a light on how a lack of access to sanitation facilities affects girls and women in many parts of the world"--From the publisher's web site.
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1998., Bridgestone Books Call No: 628.4 42 023 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Community helpersSummary Note: Explains the work of garbage collectors, including their functions, tools, and training.
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-- Treasury of 25 storybook classics :[2009], Juvenile, Weston Woods Studios ; distributed by New Video Call No: 791.43 75 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scholastic storybook treasuresSummary Note: 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 town.
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-- I am dirty!c2006., Primary, Joanna Cotler Books Call No: E MCM Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so.
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By Bausum, Annc2012., Pre-adolescent, National Geographic Call No: 323 BAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the link between the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., discussing how the strike, the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and the labor protests all laid the foundations for what many consider to be King's greatest speech, given just days before he was killed, and how that speech and King's death influenced the end of the strike.
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[2018], Primary, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: 331.892 8135393 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests. While his presence was greatly inspiring to the community, this unfortunately would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.
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Juvenile Call No: 331 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A 2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book * Booklist Top 10 Diverse Books for Middle Grade or Older Readers * A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books "(A) history that everyone should know: required and inspired." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review 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. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests. While his presence was greatly inspiring to the community, this unfortunately would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon in Mason Temple Church. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.
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2005, Primary, Houghton Mifflin Co Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mouse and his downstairs neighbor, Mole, discover that when they help each other, housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier.
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2005., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Co. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mouse and his downstairs neighbor, Mole, discover that when they help each other, housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier.
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c2016., Primary, PowerKids Press Call No: ENF 628.4 42 023 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Helping the community.Summary Note: Describes garbage collectors’ duties such as collecting garbage, keeping streets clean, driving garbage trucks, and sending garbage to landfills.