One Kid's Trash

Jamie Sumner

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781534457041
• eBook ISBN: 9781534457058

From the acclaimed author of Roll with It and Tune It Out comes a funny, moving, and “not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) middle grade novel about a boy who uses his unusual talent for decoding people’s trash to try to fit in at his new school.

Hugo is not happy about being dragged halfway across the state of Colorado just because his dad had a midlife crisis and decided to become a ski instructor. It’d be different if Hugo weren’t so tiny, if girls didn’t think he was adorable like a puppy in a purse and guys didn’t call him “leprechaun” and rub his head for luck. But here he is, the tiny new kid on his first day of middle school.

When his fellow students discover his remarkable talent for garbology, the science of studying trash to tell you anything you could ever want to know about a person, Hugo becomes the cool kid for the first time in his life. But what happens when it all goes to his head?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Chapter One: The Coefficient of Hugo
• Chapter Two: Fortune Favors the Bold
• Chapter Three: It’s Science, I Swear
• Chapter Four: The Garbologist
• Chapter Five: The Doctor Will See You Now
• Chapter Six: Winter Wonderland
• Chapter Seven: Two Kinds of People
• Chapter Eight: Read All About It!
• Chapter Nine: Breaking and Entering
• Chapter Ten: Trick-or-Treat
• Chapter Eleven: Grounded
• Chapter Twelve: 6-Across
• Chapter Thirteen: Home for the Holidays
• Chapter Fourteen: The Beech Creek School of Garbology
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright