Down in the Dump with Dinsmore

by Margaret Mahy, published by Penguin Australia - 1999

Dinsmore, a philosophical sort of boy, spends all his spare time at the local dump working on his school project on the "great merry-go-round of the world". He becomes so filthy that McTurk's Special Grass Seed grows happily all over him. He is expelled from school for health and safety reasons, but goes on to solve a dump great mystery. p.s. Margaret is one of may favourite authors ever and my favourite New Zealander after my mother.

Extremely rare and valuably out of print