The Drowned Cities - Paolo Bacigalupi

In Paolo Bacigalupi’s companion to the Printz Awardwinning Ship Breaker, best friends Mahlia and Mouse escape from THE DROWNED CITIES (Little, Brown, $17.99), the war-torn remnants of American civilization, into a remote jungle where they hope to create some kind of peace. In a cruel twist of fate, however, they only discover new dangers when they stumble upon Tool, a gravely wounded human-machine hybrid. This instrument of war is now being hunted himself, and Mahlia and Mouse are drawn into a situation that results in Mouse’s kidnapping by a band of boy soldiers and Mahlia’s desperate quest to save him. Ages 14 and up. JLM