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"A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village...
3) Toilet
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[2023]
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"This title explores the world-changing invention of the toilet and how it helped revolutionize sanitation and waste removal. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core Standards & correlated to state standards." --
7) Hogwash
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2008
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English
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Illustrations without words depict the enormous and complicated contraption that Mama Pig uses to get her little piglets clean
9) Little Oink
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English
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Little Oink is a neat little pig, but his parents will not allow him to play until he is messy, as pigs should be
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This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.
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