Ship Breaker (2010) – Paolo Bacigalupi
(Ship Breaker #1)
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 326 pages, ISBN 9780316056212
AWARDS:
National Book Award Nominee for Young People’s Literature, 2010
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2011
Andre Norton Award Nominee, 2010
Cybils Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2010
Printz Award, 2011
YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011
ALA’s Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, 2011
RT Reviewers’ Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Paranormal/Fantasy Novel, 2010
Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Books of the Year for Fiction, 2010
Annotation: Bacigalupi’s dystopian tale of a boy trying to escape both poverty and his abusive father is a hard-hitting, thrilling science fiction tale that strikes frighteningly close to home in 21st century America.
Booktalk: Ship Breaker: that’s what they call Nailer and people like him who search wrecked oil tankers for copper wire, a valuable commodity along America’s Gulf Coast in a post-oil world. Nailer knows that each day could be his last. He may die at any time, either from the region’s devastating poverty or from getting caught illegally scavenging tankers or from the beatings at the hand of his drunken father. When Nailer finds an abandoned clipper ship filled with riches, he decides things might just be going his way. Then he discovers a girl trapped inside the ship. Does he save her and risk capture by the authorities or steal the ship’s cargo and let her die?
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