Janitors School of Garbage (Janitors School of Garbage #1)

by Tyler Whitesides (Author)

Janitors School of Garbage (Janitors School of Garbage #1)
Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade

In the follow up to the best-selling Janitors series, a former student is now a teacher and founder of the School of Garbage who is training a new generation of young garbologists to trash talk and fight evil.

Garbage comes to life as animated creatures called junklets wreak havoc in elementary schools and specially trained kids from the magical School of Garbage are sent to stop the rise of the trash monsters. With the school's magical janitorial supplies--brooms that can fly, toilet plungers that can reverse gravity, and mops that can capture anything in their strings--the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

Landon Murphy discovers the undercover janitorial world when his soon-to-be stepsister, Jade Shu, guides him through a magical portal at the bottom of a dumpster that leads to a fantastical landfill and the home of the School of Garbage, where she has secretly been a student for the last few years. Problems at home with his family make it hard for Landon to feel like he belongs anywhere, but he is quickly welcomed a student at the intriguing school for wizard-like janitors.

His class on the science of garbology is like being a crime scene investigator, and every student gets to bond with one of three Servites--small, magical animals who exhale enchanted dust to help kids focus or be creative or have energy. Landon and Jade--along with allies from the original series--are tasked to take out the trash and figure out who--or what--is behind the mysterious garbage attacks and stop them before the entire world is literally trashed.

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There's more than enough gross, slimy action to sweep readers along.

Review quotes

"Returning fans will welcome some familiar characters—including supposedly vanquished villains—as well as more janitor gags to wince at and desperate struggles aplenty with towering assemblages of animated detritus. There's more than enough gross, slimy action to sweep readers along."— Kirkus
Tyler Whitesides
Tyler Whitesides once worked part-time at a middle school as a night custodian. Wandering the halls each night sparked the ideas which led to the Janitors series. As an author, Tyler has presented in many states, speaking to more than 700 schools across the country. He loves music and the great outdoors. He lives in northern Utah with his two sons.
Classification
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ISBN-13
9781639931682
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Publication date
September 05, 2023
Series
Janitors School of Garbage
BISAC categories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
Magic
Families
Schools
Fantasy
Fantasy fiction
Monsters
JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
School custodians
Novels

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