Ship breaker

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.

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Main Author: Bacigalupi, Paolo
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Ship Breaker ; 1.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"A novel"--Jacket.
Physical Description:326 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience:013-017.
Awards:A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN:9780316056212 (hardcover) :
0316056219 (hardcover) :
Author Notes:Paolo Bacigalupi won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for his debut novel, The Windup Girl, which was published in 2009. His short story collection Pump Six and Other Stories was a 2008 Locus Award winner for Best Collection and his young adult novel Ship Breaker won the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and was finalist for the National Book Award. His work has also appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

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