Printz award winner and a national book award finalist. This detailed literature summary also contains quotes and a free quiz on ship breaker by paolo bacigalupi. Not my greatest work, but hey, my sister was supposed to make it. It did not take long to get caught up but you should read the first two then this one since it cannot be read as a standalone novel. While searching for salvage, they find a girl who is almost dead, and after much debate, decide to rescue the girl instead of killing her. When paolo bacigalupis young adult novel ship breaker begins, nailer, a boy in his late teens, is helping to disassemble wrecked ships for sale to salvage companies.
He is also the author of the locus award nominee the doubt factory. Tool of war is the third book in the ship breaker book series. Ship breaker is a 2010 young adult novel by paolo bacigalupi set in a postapocalyptic future. Meet the authors at the bay area book festival sfgate. The polar ice caps have melted and new orleans is underwater.
The windup girl, pump six and other stories, ship breaker and the drowned cities, is. Wenny has wings movie trailer i made for my sisters book report. Paolo bacigalupi is the new york times bestselling author of the highly acclaimed the drowned cities and ship breaker, a michael l. Nailer tries to find nita, but when he does, his father has her, and is intent on selling her to save himself. The book starts off with anna selling some of her belongings in a pawn shop. Much of ship breaker s success is due to its humor without which, it would have been borderline depressing. I read this book without reading the first two books and was a little lost at first. Bacigalupi, the awardwinning author of the water knife. After going home she goes to the office of campbell alexander in order to hire him to sue her parents for the right to her own body. Pirates of the caribbean, the ship breaker version.