Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist)

· Sold by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
4.0
141 reviews
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336
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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

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4.0
141 reviews
angelo missita
April 11, 2013
Some of these people may not like it but in my opinion Its amazing. It started off as a random book on a shelf. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. The amount of action and betrayal has you not wanting to put the book Down. This is one of those books where something happens and you're like "that's it I'm done". Yet you don't stop. You finish it and then are so happy you did. Without spoiling it I would like to just say that the book makes feel young and somewhat pirate-ish. It is a must read.
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A Google user
February 22, 2012
Great, but not perfect. At times you did use the same word to many times, but the story was unbelievable. I couldn't put the book down I actually finished it the same day I got it. It took me 5-6 hours, but it was worth it. Great job on the book a great dystopia book and I truly enjoyed reading it. 4/5
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A Google user
August 8, 2012
I've been enthralled by all of Bacigalupi's work since I read The Windup Girl. Then came Pump Six and Other Stories. I'm absolutely in love with his uncompromising vision of a world wracked by energy shortage and economic collapse.
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About the author

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.

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