Ship Breaker

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• Book Review: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Part of: Portals: YA Adventures in Other Words and Worlds Share

  I just blazed through Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker and I really regret having to leave that world. I want to go back along Bright Sands Beach and revisit all those wonderful people I met that are struggling through such hard lives. I also enjoyed ... (read full critics)

  blogcritics published on Mon, 11 Oct 2010

• Ship Breaker By Paolo Bacigalupi

  Ship Breaker, the new novel from highly acclaimed author Paolo Bacigalupi, poses a challenge to critics: How do you explain how good it is without a dozen “spoiler alerts”? One of science fiction’s pleasures is the dislocation it confronts readers wi ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  From a not-so-young adult

  If this is a Young Adult book, I must be one. Near-future gloominess breaks through when Nailer, a young ship breaker, happens on the scavenge of his life and enters a world of adventure. I felt like reliving those pirate books I loved as a kid with an edgy, no holds-barred prose that appeals to kid ... (continue)

  If this is a Young Adult book, I must be one. Near-future gloominess breaks through when Nailer, a young ship breaker, happens on the scavenge of his life and enters a world of adventure. I felt like reliving those pirate books I loved as a kid with an edgy, no holds-barred prose that appeals to kids of any age. Excellent!

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• English Books
• Others 352 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0316056197
• ISBN-13: 9780316056199
• Publisher: Little Brown and Co
• Pub date: Oct 03, 2011
• Also available as: Library Binding and eBook

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