Ship Breakers

Ship Breakers

 

               Ship Breakers by Paolo Bacigalupi is historical fiction and is a great book I highly recommend it to those with a moderate Lexile level. It puts the reader through suspense and anxiety. I have made a lot of connections like the fact that you have to be the best and in horrible situations even your good friends will turn on you. I also learned that if you are a lying little cheat you will get as far as the person next to you but no farther.

Will has been a beach rat his whole life and a part of light crew for as long as he could remember. He has crawled through air duct and small spaces as soon as he could crawl and pull wires at the same time.  He and Pima eventually became friends and later she became the leader of light crew and was trying to get ready for heavy crew. Then a giant storm hits and everyone has to head for cover. Eventually the storm passes and when they are on leave after the storm they find a really fast ship called a clipper. When they search it they come up with the idea of a lucky strike, which means to carry small amounts of fortune and eventually get freed from slavery. Then they find a person with more wealth on her fingers than on the whole ship in gold and when they try to get the gold it won’t budge that’s when they decide to cut off the fingers but then the girl blinks and will backs up and once he decides to save her, he dives into something bigger than anyone on the beach.

As he and the Swank fight to find her father in order to avoid her evil uncles clutches. I have had a lot of moments when I swore he would die and…… I have already said to much already You’ll have to find out how the book goes and the final ending.