Shipbreaker

Title: Shipbreaker

Author: Paolo Bacigalupi

Genre: Science Fiction

You will like this book if:

• You are concerned about how our actions today will affect the future's environment.
• You like books that take place in the "near future".
• You have felt a difference between people that have money and people that don't.
• You are interested in boats and/or sailing.
• You have respect for books that win awards.

You will not like this book if:

• You like to read books that are very realistic.
• You don't like books with a lot of violence. 

Summary: This book definitely does NOT take place in modern time, but could the world this book takes place in be ours in the near future?  Nailer lives in a time where the oceans have been polluted, entire cities in the South have been wiped out with flooding, and scrap metal keeps food on families' tables.  Nailer has it rough: his mother is dead, growing could get him fired from his job, and his dad is a drugged out maniac.  But one day he stumbles upon a "Lucky Strike" that could change his life forever.  However, making sure that his life is changed for the better, instead of making it worse, requires new friendships and dangers.