Includes sneak preview of The Drowned Cities, a companion novel to Ship Breaker.; NM Battle of the Books - Middle School Reading List.
Originally published in hardcover in May 2010 by Little, Brown and Company.
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.