Laird, Elizabeth <br/><br/>
The Garbage King 

 - New York  Macmillan Children's Books  2003 
 - 330p. 
<br/><br/> When Mamo's mother dies, he is abandoned in the shanties of Addis Ababa. Stolen by a child-trafficker and sold to a farmer, he is cruelly treated. Escaping back to the city, he meets another, very different runaway. Dani is rich, educated—and fleeing his tyrannical father. Together they join a gang of homeless street boys who survive only by mutual bonds of trust and total dependence on each other.<br/>Celebrate this beloved contribution to children's literature with the 25th Anniversary Edition. The haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity, is as resonant today as when it was first published. Lois Lowry will include a new afterword as well as her Newbery acceptance speech in this beautifully rejacketed edition.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>‎978-1-5098-0295-1 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scottish Arts Council Award<br/>Children's Book of the Year Award<br/>English Literature<br/>Novel for children
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813  / LAI