1) American young adult novel 2) Climate change novel 
Ship Breaker is a 2010 young adult novel by Paolo Bacigalupi set in a dystopian future. It was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award for Young People`s Literature and won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award and the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book. It was also a nominee for the 2010 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and F....
[n] - a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap
noun a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap