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Ship breaker / by Paolo Bacigalupi.
In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life....In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316056199
- ISBN: 0316056197
- Physical Description: 326 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. Includes sneak preview of The Drowned Cities, a companion novel to Ship Breaker. Originally published in hardcover in May 2010 by Little, Brown and Company. |
| Target Audience Note: | 14+ years HL690L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.4 11 137055. |
| Awards Note: | Junior Library Guild selection National Book Award Honor for Young People's Literature, 2010 Michael L. Printz Award, 2011 |
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| Subject: | Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction. Recycling (Waste, etc.) > Juvenile fiction. Science fiction > Juvenile literature. |
| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Science fiction. |
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