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I’ve contacted a publisher and waiting to hear back. Do you think they will like this story for kids?

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What’s All the Racket about Recycling?

Jimmy and his family had just moved to Wheatharvest Circle. As Jimmy sat on his front porch throwing his baseball up into the air he noticed an older man walking up to his house.
“Hello there young man, my name is Harold McGrady, are your parents home?” Harold was a proud citizen of Wheatharvest Circle. He had lived there longer than anyone had. He was in charge of quite a lot besides his family farm that sat on the tallest hill in Wheatharvest.
Jimmy ran into the house returning to the front door with his mom and dad.
“Hi, my name is Harold, Harold McGrady to be exact and I wanted to invite you all to the old neighborhood. I’ve been a resident of Wheatharvest Circle all my life. I live right up the road there on the hill.”
Jimmy’s parents sat on the front porch and talked with Harold for quite sometime. It grew dark outside as the full moon and the stars lit the dark country road.
“It’s getting late Jimmy; I’d better get you ready for bed.”
Jimmy’s mom said as she held the screen door open for Jimmy.
“Well, I won’t keep you folks; it was nice talking to you.” Harold made his way to the stairs as he had his cane to help him.
The sun had already risen as it crept through the curtains and onto the hardwood floor of Jimmy’s bedroom.
Vroom, vroom, chug, chug, are the sounds Jimmy woke up to as he looked out of his bedroom window in search of where the loud noises were coming from. It was Harold McGrady driving an old truck with piles of junk hauled on the back in canisters.
“Where’s he taking all that junk,” Jimmy thought to himself. Just then it was a knock at the door. It was Harold McGrady.
“Good morning, this here is my grandson, his name is Cody. He’ll be here all summer on vacation. I told him all about Jimmy so I thought I could take the two of them to the recycling center this morning.”
Harold stood with his hands placed on the small shoulders of his grandson. Jimmy was happy to see that there was someone one else in the neighborhood that he could play with during the summer.
“I think that’s a great idea. Let me run upstairs and get Jimmy ready” Jimmy’s dad said as he invited Harold and Cody into the house.
Just as Jimmy’s dad made it upstairs he noticed Jimmy already dressed sitting on the floor tying his shoes.
“You sure did get dressed fast Jimmy.”
“Dad did you hear that, recycling. I’ve been wondering about this for a long time and now I get to see how it’s done, wow!”
Jimmy was very excited that he would get the chance to see what recycling was all about. They were all set and ready to go. Cody and Jimmy played together like they had been friends for years. Finally arriving at the recycling center Jimmy’s eyes gleamed at all he saw. There was an area for paper, plastic containers, metals and glass.
“Okay boys we’re here. We’ll go on the recycling tour first, and then we can drop off everything we brought with us today.”
“As we go on the tour everyone will be given a bag of items and for each area we stop in, we want to see if you know where it goes.”
It was fun going on the tour Jimmy thought. He was learning so much about recycling.
“When you recycle you want to make sure that you place everything in the correct place. All the plastic goes together, all the paper goes together and all of the glass goes together. To keep things tidy you can have a nice plastic bin for each type of recycling you have. Another good thing about recycling is kids can help too.” The tour guide said as she held up the plastic green bin. Cody placed his empty cardboard milk carton in the pile for paper and Jimmy placed his old glass juice bottle in the pile for glass.
“The good thing to remember is that recycling makes the earth a better place to live in. It saves energy and it’s useful for everyone to use old things again. Make sure you all recycle, reduce, reuse.”
The tour guide finished the tour and everyone was now able to take there items, they brought with them to the areas of the recycling center.
“Mr. McGrady we brought so much with us, do you think we will be able to unload everything from the truck?” Jimmy asked as he stood at the end of the truck with Cody unloading the recyclables.
“Jimmy, don’t worry it doesn’t take long at all.”
“Me and Grandpa sometime have more than this to recycle. You’ll see Jimmy that it’s quite fast.”
Harold stood back and looked as Jimmy and Cody loaded all the plastics, glass, and paper in the correct area of the recycling center. Getting down to the last barrel they brought, Jimmy noticed there was nothing else to recycle.
“We’re done already, that sure was fast.” Jimmy said as he dusted off his hands.
“Told you Jimmy, it was quick and fun. I love coming here with grandpa.”
Just then Harold loaded the empty recycle bins on the back of the truck when the tour guide walked over to congratulate Jimmy and Cody on a job well done while recycling.”
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