Ship Breaker
Nailer's time is running out. He's getting too big for his work - stripping copper wire from old oil tankers - and once he's off the crew he's on his own, stuck in a shack on the beach with no food, no money and no way of earning his keep. He has one last chance. The thing all crew members dream about, a lucky strike, has hit in the shape of a clipper ship beached during the last hurricane. If he can hold off the rest of the scavengers long enough to get the oil out, he might just have a future. But oil's not the only thing on the ship. And what Nailer finds is going to change his life forever.
Michael L. Printz Award Winner (2011); YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults List (2011); Locus Award Winner - Best Young Adult Book(2011); ALA Top Ten List - Best Fiction for Young Adults (2011); National Book Award nominee - Young People’s Literature (2010); Andre Norton Award nominee - Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (2010); Cybil Award nominee - Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2010); Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) nominee - Best Young Adult Paranormal/Fantasy Novel (2010); Publishers Weekly's List - Best Children's Books of the Year for Fiction (2010); Amazon.com's Best Books List (2010)
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About the Ship Breaker Series
Books in series order
- 1.Ship Breaker(2010)
- 2.The Drowned Cities(2012)
- 3.Tool of War(2017)
Reading age: 13+ years
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...