The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker)

The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker)

<div><b>This thrilling companion to Paolo Bacigalupi's bestselling award-winner <i>Ship Breaker</i> and <i>Tool of War </i>is a haunting and powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.</b></div><div><br></div><div>In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool--who is being hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses. One is taken prisoner by merciless soldier boys, and the other is faced with an impossible decision: Risk everything to save a friend, or flee to a place where freedom might finally be possible.<br><br>"Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with <i>The Hunger Games</i>...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." --<i>Los Angeles Times<br></i><br><div>A 2012 Los Angeles Public Library Best Teen Book</div><div>A 2013 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book</div><div>A 2013 CBC at Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year Book</div><div>A 2013 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Titles for Children and Teens Book<br><div>A Junior Library Guild Selection</div></div><div>A 2014 Tennessee Volunteer Book Award Nominee</div><i><br><br></i></div>