junk

Helping out in her father's auto junk yard has taught Jamie how to fix the schoolbus, but the other children's teasing still hurts until she learns how to fix a friendship as well.

Provides patterns and detailed instructions for fifteen crafts made from junk.

A photo essay that chronicles what happens to a car at a salvage yard, from fluid draining to shredding.

Bored because there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved and worried about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures.

Outlines what happens to junked vehicles as they are recycled at the junkyard. Includes glossary of related terms and recycling fact sheet.

Pinch is a pack rat who likes the things cluttering his house, but when he is persuaded to sell them at a neighborhood sale, he discovers the beauty of recycling.

Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.