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PreS-Gr 2 This urban trash-to-treasure tale will resonate with city dwellers and send suburbanites and kids in rural areas searching for similar adventures. A boy waits at his bedroom window for his adult neighbor Steve, a.k.a. "the dumpster diver," to set things in motion. Five taps come on the boy's window and two other young residents of the building also receive the signal to report to duty. The children are "Hose Handler #1," "Hose Handler #2," and "The Fauceteer." Armies of insects are...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Take a multicultural trio of city kids out of Ezra Jack Keats; add the graphic wit and light edge of early Tomi Ungerer; and animate, animate, animate. The dumpster diver is electrician Steve, a free spirit who recruits the young narrator and his pals to hose down the treasure he extracts and hose off the beetles and roaches and spiders that emerge en masse—"millions of legs living two hundred feet away from me." What the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Dumpster diver Steve recruits the narrator and his pals to hose down the treasure he extracts. Then, disaster: the dumpster tr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More