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Title Ship breaker / by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Author Bacigalupi, Paolo, author.
Publisher New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2011.
Copyright ©2010
Description 324 pages, 22 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
Edition First edition.
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 LW-True North  TEEN DYSTOPIAN BACIGALUPI PAOLO Nearby on shelf  30641004953845 02-10-21  AVAILABLE
Note Includes an excerpt from "The drowned cities" by Paolo Bacigalupi.
NOTE Accelerated Reader MG+ 4.4 11 137055
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.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
National Book Award Honor for Young People's Literature, 2010.
Michael L. Printz Award, 2011.
Subject Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Tankers -- Environmental aspects.
Genre Science fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Series Ship breaker ; 1
ISBN 9780316056199
0316056197