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Ship breaker
Title:
Ship breaker
Author:
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
ISBN:
9780316056212 (hardcover) :

0316056219 (hardcover) :
Personal Author:
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Physical Description:
326 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"A novel"--Jacket.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
013-017.
Subject Term:
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.

Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Juvenile fiction.

Conduct of life -- Fiction.

Recycling (Waste) -- Fiction.

Shipwreck survivors -- Fiction.

Dystopias -- Fiction.

Scavenging -- Fiction.

Clipper ships -- Fiction.

Salvage -- Fiction.

Poverty -- Fiction.

Violence in men -- Fiction.

Teenage boys -- Fiction.

Shipwreck -- Fiction.

Teenage boy/girl relations -- Fiction.

Adventure fiction.

Science fiction.
Genre:
Young adult fiction.

Science fiction -- Juvenile.