{"product_id":"ship-breaker-national-book-award-finalist-9780316056199","title":"Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethis thrilling bestseller and National Book Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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....\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller \u003cbr\u003eA Michael L. Printz Award Winner \u003cbr\u003eA National Book Award Finalist \u003cbr\u003eA VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book \u003cbr\u003eA Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon't miss the other books in the series: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTool of War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaolo Bacigalupi \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTool of War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShip Breaker\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, Michael L. Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the Edgar Awards nominee \u003ci\u003eThe Doubt Factory;\u003c\/i\u003e a novel for younger readers, \u003ci\u003eZombie Baseball Beatdown;\u003c\/i\u003e and two bestselling adult novels for adults, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Knife \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Windup Girl. \u003c\/i\u003eHis first work of collected short fiction was \u003ci\u003ePump Six and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Tangled Lands\u003c\/i\u003e with Tobias S. Buckell. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, he lives in western Colorado with his wife and son. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612647756050,"sku":"9780316056199","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a14a5443-3b0e-488f-aa1a-07d934e3c103.jpg?v=1732376378","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ship-breaker-national-book-award-finalist-9780316056199","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}