October Sky Prebound - 2000
by Homer H. Hickam
Based on the book "Rocket Boys", this feature film by Universal Pictures premieres in theaters in February and stars Chris Cooper and Laura Dern. Originally published as "Rocket Boys", this novelization is the official movie tie-in to the movie. Available now.
First line
UNTIL i BEGAN to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.
From the rear cover
It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space. The introspective son of the mine's superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive. As the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the Hickams, would never be the same.
Details
- Title October Sky
- Author Homer H. Hickam
- Binding Prebound
- Edition Dell
- Pages 428
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Turtleback Books
- Date January 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780780799981 / 0780799984
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.3 in (17.53 x 10.92 x 3.30 cm)
- Reading level 900
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Hickam, Homer H., Aerospace engineers - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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