Title: Here comes the garbage barge!
Description: Summary: 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.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Refuse and refuse disposal, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, New york (state), history, fiction, New York Times reviewed