Rocket Boys : A Memoir (CD-Audio)

from tgraettinger

Really enjoyable and satisfying. I read the book after watching the movie, "October Sky", which was based on it. I thought the movie did a credible job of telling the stories of Homer and his fellow rocket boys, but the book fleshed out a lot of the details and storylines that were left untold.

from LisaMaria_C

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch That could act as a summary to the book. At fourteen-years-old Homer Hickam was an average student with no real ambition in a dying town--and then in 1957 Sputnick swept over the October skies of West Virginia. It inspi...

from kjflaherty

I absolutely loved this book and the two that followed in the "Coalwood Series". I was transported to the small coal mining town and connected to the teenagers working to achieve their dreams. FANTASTIC READ! I recommend this book to anyone...even those who normally don't read non-fiction.

from avidmom

"To get out of here, you've got to show your dad you're smarter than he thinks. I believe you can build a rocket. He doesn't. I want you to show him I'm right and he's wrong. Is that too much to ask?" I am a big fan of the movie, October Sky and looked forward to reading the book the movie is bas...

from jfe16

A memoir of growing up in the hardscrabble mining company town of Coalwood, West Virginia where hope for the future was essentially nonexistent. The 1957 launch of Sputnik inspired Homer “Sonny” Hickam and his friends to design and launch homemade rockets; Homer's continuing interest in rocketry,...