Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist)
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Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) by Paolo Bacigalupi
Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National Book Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties.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.
"Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." --Los Angeles Times
A New York Times Bestseller
A Michael L. Printz Award Winner
A National Book Award Finalist
A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book
A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book
Don't miss the other books in the series:
The Drowned Cities
Tool of War
The Drowned Cities, Instrument of War, and Ship Breaker, a New York Times bestseller, are among the many works of Paolo Bacigalupi. Finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Printz Award. He's also the author of The Doubt Factory, an Edgar Award nominee; Zombie Baseball Beatdown, a story for younger readers; and The Water Knife and The Windup Girl, two blockbuster adult novels. Pump Six and Other Tales was his debut collection of short stories. With Tobias S., he co-wrote The Tangled Lands.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780316056199 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316056197 |
| Title | Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) |
| Author | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Year published | 2011-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Black-Eyed Susan Award (High School) 2011 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |