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Ship breaker

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: 0316056219
  • ISBN: 9780316056212
  • Physical Description: 326 p. ; 22 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A novel"--Jacket.
Awards Note:
Michael L. Printz Award, 2011.
Subject: Shipwreck Fiction
Teenage boys Fiction
Violence in men Fiction
Poverty Fiction
Salvage Fiction
Clipper ships Fiction
Scavenging Fiction
Dystopias Fiction
Shipwreck victims
Recycling (Waste, etc.) Fiction
Conduct of life Fiction
Genre: Science fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Covington Branch YA BACIG P (Text) 33126017048715 YA Fiction Available -

Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of the highly acclaimed The Drowned Cities, Tool of War,and Ship Breaker, a New York Times bestseller, Michael L. Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the Edgar Awards nominee The Doubt Factory; a novel for younger readers, Zombie Baseball Beatdown; and two bestselling adult novels for adults, The Water Knife and The Windup Girl. His first work of collected short fiction was Pump Six and Other Stories. He co-wrote The Tangled Lands with Tobias S. Buckell. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, he lives in western Colorado with his wife and son. The author invites you to visit his website at windupstories.com.

Paolo Bacigalupi is a rising star in the science fiction community. The author of Pump Six and Other Stories and The Windup Girl, he is both a Nebula and Hugo Award nominee, and the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story and two Locus Awards for best collection and best novelette. Paolo lives in western Colorado with his wife and son. Ship Breaker is his first novel for young adults.

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