e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
More Content
More by this author
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
Subjects
Michael L. Printz Award.
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc) -- Fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
by title:
Ship breaker / by Pa...
by call number:
FICTION BAC
Search the Web
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
Michael L. Printz Award.
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc) -- Fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
MARC Display
Ship breaker / by Paolo Bacigalupi.
by
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
Little, Brown, 2010.
Call #:
FICTION
BAC
Subjects
Michael L. Printz Award.
Teenage boys --
Fiction
.
Recycling (Waste, etc) --
Fiction
.
Shipwrecks --
Fiction
.
Choice (Psychology) --
Fiction
.
Conduct of life --
Fiction
.
Series
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship breaker ; [1].
ISBN:
9780316201582 (2011 pbk.)
9780316056212 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
326 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, 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 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..." --From the publisher.
Audience:
Ages 12–up. Publishers Weekly.
Awards:
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2011.
Genre:
Adventure
fiction
.
Dystopian
fiction
.
Futuristic
fiction
.
Science
fiction
.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
No Item Information
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.