ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir
by Hickam, Homer H. Jr
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 221678
- Title
- ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir
- Author
- Hickam, Homer H. Jr
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- americana;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography;
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