Bacigalupi, Paolo      <br/><br/>
Ship Breaker  
by Paolo Bacigalupi 
 - 1st pbk. ed. 
 - New York   Little, Brown  2011 
 - 324 p.   21 cm.  Paper 
 - Ship Breaker Series   Book 1  . <br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780316056199 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Conduct of life<br/>Recycling (Waste, etc.)<br/>Science fiction.
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>yBac   75