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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449282270 Title: Ship breaker Author: Paolo Bacigalupi Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, and Co. 2010. ISBN/ISSN: 9780316056212 0316056219 OCLC:449282270

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Ship breaker

Author:	Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher:	New York : Little, Brown, and Co. 2010.
Edition/Format:	Book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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.
Rating:	based on 2 rating(s) 1 with a review

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Genre/Form:	Young adult fiction, American Science fiction, American Science fiction Fiction Juvenile fiction
Material Type:	Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Paolo Bacigalupi Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780316056212 0316056219
OCLC Number:	449282270
Notes:	Companion to: The drowned cities.
Awards:	A Junior Library Guild selection National Book Award Honor for Young People's Literature, 2010. Michael L. Printz Award, 2011.
Description:	326 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility:	by Paolo Bacigalupi.

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Praise for Ship Breaker"Bacigalupi's future earth is brilliantly imagined and its genesis anchored in contemporary issues...The characters are layered and complex, and their almost unthinkable Read more...

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From what was once known as America, rises a new civilization with the rich at the top and the poor at the bottom. The rich people employ the poor folks for a less than meager salary. One of them is a boy by the name of Nailer, no more than 15 years old, who has to work non-stop to make quota. If...
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