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I saw this book advertised on the back of my son's Boys' Life magazine and after reading the synopsis of the book I decided to order it from amazon. My 11-year old boy is a great reader but, doesn't enjoy reading and is very picky about what he reads. I am constantly researching, purchasing and renting books for him. He just started this book today. After he had read for his required amount of time, he found me and wanted to tell me all about the story up to the point he had read. As far as I am concerned, that is a good book! Otherwise, he reads a book, closes it and wants to just forget about it until the next day when he knows has to read it again. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy the book. I can't wait to hear what happens next!


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Trash Andy Mulligan Books Reviews

I am writing my review based on my sons interest in this book. I am always looking for books to keep my 12 year old reading. He does enjoy reading but is very picky about books and puts down many before giving them a fighting chance. I won't spoil it by telling you anything about the book. All you need to know you can read from the description. I will say that my son read it cover to cover in two days and said it was really good. That comes from a very picky reader with a incredibly short attention span.
The thriller Trash, by Andy Mulligan, is an exciting adventure, set in a developing country much different than our own. Trash brings you into a world that most people will never have the misfortune to see a huge garbage dump, whose stench and filth is really almost unimaginable to folks like us, whose trash is tidily placed in black plastic bags and conveniently handled for us by Sanitation workers. Most of us never see what happens after these workers pick up our trash; where it really ends up and in fact, we probably don't really want to know. This story is about the place where trash does ends up, in a third world country, and what life is like in this place for three young garbage pickers... until the day something incredible happens that changes all this and gives them hope for the future.

Trash is very atmospheric, setting the scene with images of miles and miles of raw rotting garbage, human waste, and the overwhelming stench. The descriptions were so good I could practically taste the horrible stench myself.

Raphael says, "It's a place they call Behala, and it's Rubbish Town. Three years ago it was Smoky Mountain, but Smoky Mountain got so bad, they closed it up and shifted us along the road. The piles stack up - I mean Himalayas you can climb forever and many people do up and down into the valleys. The mountains go right from the docks to the marshes, one whole long world of steaming trash. I am one of the Rubbish Boys, picking through the stuff this city throws away."

Rat, Raphael and Gardo are brave, intelligent and fierce street kids who live at Behala. They take turns narrating the story from each of their perspectives. You may be surprised by their self-reliance, kindness and abilities to figure out clues and information. Trash follows the story of these three young kids who live in the garbage dump, looking for anything they can salvage from the waste to sell for pennies to live day by day with little hope for the future.

Or is there hope.....? One day, one of the boys, Raphael finds a mysterious small cloth bag containing a wallet and some other things in among the mountains of trash. This find is destined to change his life and those of his two friends forever. After finding the bag, the boys are on the run, as they soon find out that the police will do anything to get this bag and its contents.

Read Trash to find out what will happen in this crazy mad chase of a novel. Find out why the police want this bag more than anything and what happens to the three young boys because they get involved using their wit and courage to solve a very dangerous mystery that has huge implications to them and many other people. I highly recommend this book if you love books that make you really care about the characters and what happens to them. If you love a thrilling page turner that you will not be able to put down, all the way to a most satisfying conclusion, you will definitely enjoy this book!

Background information for the Librarian

Trash brings up many important and thought-provoking questions for further discussion, such as Why are people living this way? Or, Is there any way out for them?
The author Andy Mulligan has lived in Manila Philippines for four years and teaches at an international school there. In an interview about Trash, he wrote
"All teachers at my school make a visit there (to the dump) and you are confronted with these biblical images," recalls Mulligan. "It's like one of the circles of hell. You are watching seven-year-olds crawling through the rubbish right next to 70-year-olds - and you have in that vision the absolute solid image of what that seven-year-old will become. You just think this can't really be true and you are overwhelmed by your own impotence - there is not a thing I can do about it."

Pauli, M. (2010) Andy Mulligan Talks Trash. Web. Accessed on 7/14/2011. [...]

Mulligan, A. (2011) Trash. Andy Mulligan's Website. Web. Accessed on 7/14/2011. [...]

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I downloaded this book to read to my fourth grade class. It turned out to be a bit mature for them, but I positively loved it. It takes you to a place you never knew you needed to visit and through the eyes of it's main characters, you get acquainted with poverty and corruption in an intimate way that is difficult to describe.
A quick, enjoyable read. I really felt for the garbage kids. Imagine having to live in a garbage dump and sort through trash all your life! I'm glad they had a happy ending.
This is an exciting, thought-provoking Young Adult novel that is high interest and low reading level. It makes readers aware of the struggle of poor children. The conflict the children face when they find a paper bag with a key, an ID and money in a dump site makes for some interesting decision making. I enjoyed the book so much, and thought there was no way the author could end it without being trite. To my surprise, he found the perfect ending, meaningful and not contrived. This is a great book for anyone to read, but I highly recommend it for reluctant readers -- especially boys -- from grades five through high school. I enjoyed it as a 61-year-old adult.
Raphael, Gardo, and Rat are dumpsite boys in an unnamed country, earning money by sifting through the enormous mountains of trash for something worth selling. When a bag containing a large quantity of cash and a key is found by Raphael, the three boys become involved in a mystery which threatens their families, the neighbors in their poor community next to the dump, and their own lives. I listened to an audio version and found the change in voices between the three protagonists and a few minor characters made the story really come alive. It probably helped keep the story straight as the chapters moved between the viewpoints of those characters.

This is a story which needs to be told, as it undoubtedly is the story of children in some parts of the world. Middle school students will relate to the idea of finding something and not telling the police about it. If they don't follow politics (which middle school students do?), they will learn that those in power/government do not always have the people's best interests at heart. If they are compassionate, their hearts will break for the choices these three boys have to make.

I have recommended this book to students in my library and will continue to do so.
This book opens our eyes to the complications of living in poverty, the power that can be built by corrupt politicians while allowing the reader to fall in love with three filthy amazing young boys. The story is full of interest and suspense. It was a set book for 14 year olds but rather challenging!
I saw this book advertised on the back of my son's Boys' Life magazine and after reading the synopsis of the book I decided to order it from . My 11-year old boy is a great reader but, doesn't enjoy reading and is very picky about what he reads. I am constantly researching, purchasing and renting books for him. He just started this book today. After he had read for his required amount of time, he found me and wanted to tell me all about the story up to the point he had read. As far as I am concerned, that is a good book! Otherwise, he reads a book, closes it and wants to just forget about it until the next day when he knows has to read it again. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy the book. I can't wait to hear what happens next!