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Ship Breaker
By Bacigalupi, Paolo
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-31605-621-2
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2010
Gr 7-Up A fast-paced postapocalyptic adventure set on the American Gulf Coast. Nailer works light crew; his dirty, dangerous job is to crawl deep into the wrecks of the ancient oil tankers that line the beach, scavenging copper wire and turning it over to his crew boss. After a brutal hurricane passes over, Nailer and his friend ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2010
Teenaged Nailer is living in a dystopian future America where climate change and humankind have wreaked havoc on the land and society. Nailer works as a ship breaker, scavenging copper wiring from the insides of abandoned oil tankers being disassembled along the Gulf Coast. A life-altering, near-death experience—he gets trapped in a chamber filled with oil ("I'm going to drown in goddamn money")—is just the beginning of Nailer's advent...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
In a dystopian future America, “ship breaker” Nailer discovers a wrecked clipper ship and its sole survivor, Nita. Nailer choose...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on July 1, 2010
Paolo Bacigalupi’s electrifying prose pulls in readers from page one, transmitting every moment of Nailer’s fear and claustrophobia as he crawls deep into the bowels of a ship. Ship Breaker’s world is a thoroughly realized dystopia. Its po...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
