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Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, and Co. 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Genre/Form: Young adult fiction, American
Science fiction, American
Science fiction
Fiction
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Paolo Bacigalupi
ISBN: 9780316056212 0316056219
OCLC Number: 449282270
Notes: Companion to: The drowned cities.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection
National Book Award Honor for Young People's Literature, 2010.
Michael L. Printz Award, 2011.
Description: 326 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: by Paolo Bacigalupi.

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From what was once known as America, rises a new civilization with the rich at the top and the poor at the bottom. The rich people employ the poor folks for a less than meager salary. One of them is a boy by the name of Nailer, no more than 15 years old, who has to work non-stop to make quota. If...
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