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Shipbreaker book6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() He writes primarily biopunk, science fiction, and young-adult stories. Bacigalupi has written 5 novels including Ship Breaker, with a 6th one on its way, and he has written numerous short stories. Printz Award for Best Young Adult Novel in 2011. Paolo Bacigalupi has been nominated, and has won, many awards for his work. So what will Nailer do when faced with a choice between killing a beautiful but helpless rich girl his own age, or letting the swank live and watch his chance for the easy life slip away? Nailer not only has to deliver the goods, but he has to do this while avoiding his drug-crazed and violent father. It is imperative they meet the quota set by their bosses, or they could end up discarded, and become beach rats with nothing. He, along with his crew mates, scavenge abandoned oil tankers for anything of value. Nailer, a fifteen year old boy, tries to exist working as a ship breaker on the south-east coast of North America. In a dystopic society set in the future where the gap between the wealthy and the poor is vast and impassible, and the world has been depleted of natural resources, life for the poor is almost unbearable. Program Type: Audiobook, Version: Unabridged, Release Date: May 4, 2010, ASIN: B003KWL65S ![]() Publisher: Audible Studios, Audible Audio Edition, Listening Length: 9 hours and 8 minutes Book Review of Ship Breaker: 3 Treasure Boxes ![]()
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