Rocket Boys: A Memoir
by Hickam, Homer H., Jr
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/DJ Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 038533320X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333207
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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
- Browse Awhile Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1140278
- Title
- Rocket Boys: A Memoir
- Author
- Hickam, Homer H., Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 038533320X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333207
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- Large Octavo
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...