Ancient asbestos fibers and mouse grit puffed up around him as N AILER CLAMBERED THROUGH a service duct, tugging at copper wire and yanking it free. 'Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games…but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines.' - Los Angeles TimesĪ VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Bookĭon’t miss the other books in the series: In 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 The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. 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…. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota–and hopefully live to see another day. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National BookFinalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties.

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