Ship Breaker

Paolo Bacigalupi

Original title: Ship breaker

earliest edition we have, 2010 Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010 336 pages

In America's Gulf Coast region, 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 fo...

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Editions we hold

Ship Breaker audiobook · 2015 · Brilliance Audio · 9781511319874
Ship Breaker edition · 2011 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 336 pages · 9780748129386
Ship Breaker edition · 2011 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 336 pages · 9781907411106
Ship Breaker edition · 2011 · Perfection Learning · 326 pages · 9781613831458
Ship Breaker edition · 2011 · Little Brown · 352 pages · 9780316056199
Ship Breaker edition · 2011 · Turtleback Books · 352 pages · 9780606234566
Ship Breaker audiobook · 2010 · Brilliance Audio · 8 pages · 9781441883483
Ship breaker edition · 2010 · Little, Brown · 326 pages · 9780316056212
Ship Breaker edition · 2010 · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · 336 pages · 9780316081689

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