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.
General Note
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.
"Illustrations are hand-built three-dimensional sets shot with a Canon digital SLR camera grafted onto the back of a Horseman 4X5 camera. The line art was drawn with Hunt 108 pen nibs and Higgins waterproof black ink on paper."--Title page verso.
Details on how the art was created are on the inside of the dust jacket.