AIIAS Academy LibraryShip breaker.
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
Ship breaker. Paolo Bacigalupi. - New York : Little, Brown, ©2010. - 326 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Junior Library Guild selection
National Book Award Honor for Young People's Literature, 2010
Michael L. Printz Award, 2011
9780316056199
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
823.912 B125 2010 AA-HS
Ship breaker. Paolo Bacigalupi. - New York : Little, Brown, ©2010. - 326 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Junior Library Guild selection
National Book Award Honor for Young People's Literature, 2010
Michael L. Printz Award, 2011
9780316056199
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
823.912 B125 2010 AA-HS