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Ship breaker / a novel by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Bacigalupi, Paolo, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316056197
  • ISBN: 0316056219
  • ISBN: 0329859439
  • ISBN: 9780316056199
  • ISBN: 9780316056212
  • ISBN: 9780329859435
  • ISBN: 9780606234566
  • Physical Description: 326 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2010.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Young Adult
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
HL690L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.4 11 137055.

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Subject:
Clipper ships > Fiction.
Conduct of life > Fiction.
Dystopias > Fiction.
Poverty > Fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc.) > Fiction.
Salvage > Fiction.
Scavenging > Fiction.
Science fiction > Fiction.
Shipwreck survivors > Fiction.
Shipwrecks > Fiction.
Teenage boy/girl relations > Fiction.
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Violence in men > Fiction.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Young adult fiction.

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  • 54 of 56 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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Hot Springs Library YA FIC BAC (Text) 30229101460995 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Andrews Public Library YA BAC (Text) 80605000718642 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Annie Hubbard McEachern Public Library YA BACIGALUPI (Text) 34510610453597 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Barco Library TEEN F BAC (Text) 39488200820753 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Bath Community Library YA FIC (Text) 38344101353876 Adult Fiction Available -
Beaufort Main YA F BAC (Text) 34208202528179 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Carver School Road Branch YA Bacigalupi, Paolo (Text) 0112515070228 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Columbus Library YA F BAC (Text) 31250200036018 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Denton Public Library YA BAC SCI FI (Text) 25908004467176 Young Adult Fiction Available -
East Bend Public Library YA BACIGALUPI (Text) 40599000828163 Young Adult Fiction Available -
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