| Authors: |
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2010. |
| Description: |
326 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780316056212 0316056219 9780316056199 |
| Notes: |
Published in paperback by Little Brown and Company in 2011. |
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Abes 2013. |
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Abe Awards 2013. |
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Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee 2013. |
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A Junior Library Guild selection |
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| Rating: |
4 out of 5: They liked it |
| Audience |
013-017. |
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| 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. |