Ship breaker / by Paolo Bacigalupi.
by Bacigalupi, Paolo.
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BookPublisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: 326 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0316056219.Subject(s): Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | Recycling (Waste) -- Juvenile fiction | Conduct of life -- Fiction | Recycling (Waste) -- Fiction | Science fictionGenre/Form: Science fiction.DDC classification: [Fic] 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.
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Wilson's Senior High School, February 2011
School Library Journal, June 2010
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Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2010
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2010
Kirkus Review, April 2010
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.
690 Lexile.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources.
Reading Counts RC 5.3 19.0.
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