I finished reading Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi yesterday.
Nailer is a teenage boy in a future Louisiana that's pretty much submerged under water from climate change. The area is devastated: extremely poverty stricken and the only work is found clearing stranded, abandoned oil rigs of any materials that can be sold. For those who can't find work on ships, income is very limited - you can sell organs, girls can sell their bodies, or you can beg and steal. After another hurricane (they're increasingly more frequent), Nailer finds a crashed ship. He thinks it's his lucky day and that he'll be able to strip it before others find it... until he finds the lone surviving girl aboard.
It was a really good book and a very fast read - I couldn't put it down. It was well-written and the dialogue was spot-on. Was it worthy of the Printz? I'm not sure. I've read better books in 2010 - and better dystopian books too.
Very good - if you like dystopian reads and haven't read this yet, go check it out. Now.
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