Bacigalupi, Paolo.

Ship breaker / by Paolo Bacigalupi. - 1st ed. - New York : Little, Brown, 2011, c2010. - 326 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

A Junior Library Guild selection. National Book Award Honor for Young People's Literature, 2010. Michael L. Printz Award, 2011.

ISBN: 9780316201582 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2009034424

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Young adult fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.B132185 / S55 2010