9780316056199-0316056197-Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) (Ship Breaker, 1)

Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) (Ship Breaker, 1)

ISBN-13: 9780316056199
ISBN-10: 0316056197
Edition: Reprint
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780316056199
ISBN-10: 0316056197
Edition: Reprint
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback 352 pages

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Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) (Ship Breaker, 1) (ISBN-13: 9780316056199 and ISBN-10: 0316056197), written by authors Paolo Bacigalupi, was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) (Ship Breaker, 1) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.53.

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This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change.

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
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