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

Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist‪)‬

    • 4.3 • 242 Ratings
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

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

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2010
May 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
8.1
MB
AUDIENCE
Grades 10-17

Customer Reviews

KrissyMara ,

Page-turner!!

My only gripe is that I wish it were longer!

AsainOnRice ,

One of my top 10

This book is like a never ending movie that keeps you hooked one scene after the other... And I agree I wish it were longer. I recommend this to anyone

DK VJ ,

Chip breaker

I loved it couldn't put it down!

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