Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi, is a 2012 Rosie nominee. It was also a National Book Award finalist and won the 2011 Michael Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. This book is a great read!
The story is set in the future in what was New Orleans, Louisiana. Major hurricanes and flooding have wiped out the cities, and all that is left are the ruins of old oil tankers run aground. Salvage crews work in the tankers trying to get hold of any scraps of copper that might be of value. The main character of the story, Nailer, works on one of these crews. After a terrible storm all but sinks a passenger ship, Nailer and his friend Pima decide to explore the vessel for valuables. Shockingly, they find a wealthy girl alive in one of the rooms of the ship. Pima wants to take her valuables and leave her to die, but Nailer refuses.
Soon, Nailer finds out that the girl is the daughter of a wealthy business owner. The girl's father has enemies who want to destroy him, and they would love nothing better than to get their hands on his daughter. In order to save the girl, Nailer must get her to friends of her father in a city miles away. To make matters worse, Nailer's broken and abusive father learns of the girl and is out to capture her with plans to turn her over to her father's enemies in exchange for a fortune.
It seems that everytime Nailer and "Lucky Girl" escape one dangerous situation, it isn't long before they find themselves in another. Along with lots of action, the book also has several surprises, and the ending of the book leaves readers anxious to read the next book in the series, called Drowned Cities.
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