Raphael is a dump site boy, rummaging through garbage looking for anything to savage, something to make a buck on or something to take home and use. Call him a Rubbish Boy living in Rubbish Town, it don’t matter, it is all the same for Raphael has been doing it since he was three, and now eight year...
The plot is simple and predictable, characters are mostly one dimensional, but I appreciate the idea of showing the world through the eyes of dumpsite children, it was very refreshing.
I finished this about five days ago and I hardly remember half of it already. Unfortunately, that's how little this book meant to me. In a an unnamed third world country everybody hunts for trash. They're poor, they have no money, most of the kids don't go to school, they need to work instead. It'...
Done for Sockpoppet's 2014 Reading Challenge, P is for Pilgrims. When I was really young, I once read this poem called "Smokey Mountain", I've forgotten the actual contents of the poem but the image haunted me: a mountain of trash so high up that you can't even see the top, how the temperature of ...
This book was okay, it had a really good message, a fantastic setting, and intriguing characters, but I think the execution took me out of the story most of the time.Most of all it's the multiple POV's that bug me. Normally I don't actually mind multiple POV's, but only when they're done well and t...
Review: Raphael, Gardo and Rat have spent their lives searching through the rubbish that comes to their home of a rubbish tip. They’ve lived like that forever. However, one day, they find a bag. It has a letter in it, and a string of numbers, and nobody knows what it means. And then they’re hunted. ...
Every day Raphael, Gardo, and Rat, three "dumpsite" boys, slog through a mountain of trash, searching for anything that can be resold for cash to feed themselves and their families. Up to their ankles and sometimes knees, in mostly "stupp" (feces wrapped in paper) and food waste, they work, buoyed i...
I read this book for my year 11 English novel study (set to us by the teacher)At first I was a little sceptical about the book, thinking that it was just about trash and that it was a story destined to be for little kids (okay... I was slightly jealous that all my other friends english classes got t...
Trash is another book that I had been thinking of reading since I first heard about it. So when I was perusing the libraries new book section I decided that I'd give it a shot, and it was more enjoyable then at first I thought it was going to be.I think the biggest surprise for me about this book wo...
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