![]() Bacigalupi created an amazing dystopian society focused on the rising sea levels predicted by climate change experts. It took me a year, but I finally got around to it and I’m sad that I took so long for me to get there. ![]() When my son first read this book for summer reading before seventh grade, he wouldn’t stop talking about how much he enjoyed it. 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. 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. This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change. ![]() Enjoy your stay and mind the new carpets. ![]()
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