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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.
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.

Available copies

  • 54 of 56 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 56 total copies.
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