{"product_id":"ship-breaker-9780316056199","title":"Ship Breaker","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Cities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTool of War\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Games\u003c\/i\u003e...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines. --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A New York Times Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e A Michael L. Printz Award Winner\u003cbr\u003e A National Book Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book\u003cbr\u003e A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4155610\"\u003ePaolo Bacigalupi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little, Brown Books for Young Readers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.24w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316056199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0316056197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-YAF\"\u003eYoung Adult Fiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-YAF003000\"\u003eScience Fiction | Apocalyptic \u0026amp; Post-Apocalyptic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-YAF\"\u003eYoung Adult Fiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-YAF043010\"\u003eScience \u0026amp; Nature | Environment\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-YAF\"\u003eYoung Adult Fiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-YAF001000\"\u003eAction \u0026amp; Adventure | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaolo Bacigalupi \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTool of War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShip Breaker\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, Michael L. Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the Edgar Awards nominee \u003ci\u003eThe Doubt Factory;\u003c\/i\u003e a novel for younger readers, \u003ci\u003eZombie Baseball Beatdown;\u003c\/i\u003e and two bestselling adult novels for adults, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Knife \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Windup Girl. \u003c\/i\u003eHis first work of collected short fiction was \u003ci\u003ePump Six and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Tangled Lands\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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