TY - BOOK AU - Laird, Elizabeth AU - Kebede, Yosef TI - The Garbage King SN - ‎978-1-5098-0295-1 U1 - 813 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Macmillan Children's Books KW - Scottish Arts Council Award KW - Children's Book of the Year Award KW - English Literature KW - Novel for children N2 - 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. 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. ER -