Rocket Boys
by Hickam, Homer
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385333218
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333214
- Seller
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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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 coal 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
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP76507630
- Title
- Rocket Boys
- Author
- Hickam, Homer
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385333218
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333214
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- January 11, 2000
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