{"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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\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\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316056199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\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\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Black-Eyed Susan Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e137055 \/ Ship Breaker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.4 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Grade Plus \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paolo Bacigalupi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635974664348,"sku":"9780316056199","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4f346c9c-1959-48e3-ac6b-fe953eee9213.jpg?v=1603841050","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ship-breaker-9780316056199","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}