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October Sky by Homer H Hickam (Hardback, 1999)

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Looking back after a distinguished NASA career that fulfilled his boyhood ambition, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking readers into the life of the little mining town and the boys who came to embody both its tensions and its dreams. With the help -- and sometimes hindrance -- of the people of Coalwood, the Rocket Boys learn t only how to turn mine scraps into rockets that soar miles into the heavens, but how to find hope in a town that progress is passing by. A uniquely American memoir, Rocket Boys is at once an inspiring chronicle of triumph and a lumius story of a mother's love, a father's fears, and a young man's coming of age. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to look beyond their differences and set their sights on the stars -- and saw a future that the nation was just beginning to imagine.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Perfection Learning
ISBN-10
0780799984
ISBN-13
9780780799981
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183856742

Product Key Features

Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Science, Technology & Medical
Author
Homer H Hickam

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication
01/02/1999
Content Note
Illustrations
Country of Publication
United States

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