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Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) : Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi

Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

Paperback | 3 October 2011 | Edition Number 290

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Winner of the 2011 Michael L Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
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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

Industry Reviews
* "Stellar."-- "Publishers Weekly", starred review * "Vivid, brutal, and thematically rich."-- "Booklist", starred review"" * "Stellar." ""Publishers Weekly", starred review"" * "Stellar." ""Publishers Weekly," starred review"" * "Vivid, brutal, and thematically rich." ""Booklist," starred review"""" "This gripping novel is all about the nature of trust and of family. . . . Nailer and his intense, beautiful world will linger in your mind for a long time."--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy "Tough, tense, and terrific--a story that keeps you turning pages while you read, and returning to the tale long after you're done."--John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War "A top-notch dystopian thriller, from its claustrophobic opening pages to its race-against-the-waves ending."--Barry Lyga, author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl and Boy Toy "Barely a chapter into this novel, readers may feel as if they're deep inside the black hold of an oil tanker--in a good way."--New York Times Book Review "A riveting tale of adventure in a broken world."--Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series and Leviathan "Exciting, poetic, and breathtaking."--Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Praise for Ship BreakerA Michael L. Printz Award WinnerA National Book Award FinalistA VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers BookA Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book"Bacigalupi's future earth is brilliantly imagined and its genesis anchored in contemporary issues...The characters are layered and complex, and their almost unthinkable actions and choices seem totally credible. Vivid, brutal, and thematically rich, this captivating title is sure to win teen fans for the award-winning Bacigalupi." --Booklist (starred review) "Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl) makes a stellar YA debut with this futuristic tale of class imbalance on the Gulf Coast...Bacigalupi's cast is ethnically and morally diverse, and the book's message never overshadows the storytelling, action-packed pacing, or intricate world-building." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) * "This thriller will grab and keep readers' attentions as Nailer and Nita 'crew up' in their fight to survive."--The Horn Book, starred review * "Vivid, brutal, and thematically rich."--Booklist, starred review * "Stellar."--Publishers Weekly, starred review * "Vivid, brutal, and thematically rich." Booklist, starred review" * "Stellar." Publishers Weekly, starred review"

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