rocket boys - a memoir
by hickam, homer
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0385333218
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333214
- Seller
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RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, United States
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Synopsis
Rocket Boys (also known as October Sky) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a pure company mining town. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release. Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States. It is also studied in many school systems around the world.
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- Bookseller
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1601992
- Title
- rocket boys - a memoir
- Author
- hickam, homer
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385333218
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333214
- Publisher
- Delta
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- January 11, 2000
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