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Rocket boys : a memior

Made into a 1999 motion picture titled, "October sky."

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  • "October sky"@en
  • "Oktober hemel"

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  • "Made into a 1999 motion picture titled, "October sky.""@en
  • "An autobiographical account of NASA engineer Homer Hickam's life that discusses his childhood, his obsession with rockets, his NASA career, and other related topics."@en
  • "Looking back after a distinguished NASA career that fulfilled his boyhood ambition, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking readers into the life of the little mining town and the boys who came to embody both its tensions and its dreams. With the help-and sometimes hindrance-of the people of Coalwood, the Rocket Boys learn not only how to turn mine scraps into rockets that soar miles into the heavens, but how to find hope in a town that progress is passing by. A uniquely American memoir, "Rocket Boys" is at once an inspiring chronicle of triumph and a luminous story of a mother's love, a father's fears, and a young man's coming of age. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to look beyond their differences and set their sights on the stars-and saw a future that the nation was just beginning to imagine."
  • "True story of a young boy growing up in Coalwood, West Virginia during the 1950's who dreams of building rockets."@en
  • "The life and times of aerospace engineer Home Hickman and his friends in Big Creek, West Virginia."
  • "True story of a young boy growing up in Coalwood, West Virginia during the 1950's who dreams of building rockets."
  • "The life and times of aerospace engineer Home Hickman and his friends in Big Creek, West Virginia."@en
  • "Autobiografisch getint relaas van een Amerikaanse puber die opgroeit in een mijnwerkersstadje in West-Virginia in de jaren vijftig."
  • "The story of a young boy growing up in Coalwood, West Virginia during the 1950's, who dreams of building rockets."@en
  • "AThe #1 -- Rocket Boys A story of romance and loss and a keen portrait of life at an extraordinary point in American history, Rocket Boys is a chronicle of triumph."@en
  • "The #1 -- Rocket Boys A story of romance and loss and a keen portrait of life at an extraordinary point in American history, Rocket Boys is a chronicle of triumph."
  • "A story of coming of age in the 1960's and is the story of the early times in the space race and small town America."@en
  • "Homer Hickam, a NASA engineer, recounts his childhood in Coalwood, a West Virginia mining town, and discusses his dreams of launching rockets into outer space, and how he made those dreams come true."@en
  • "Homer Hickam, a NASA engineer, recounts his childhood in Coalwood, a West Virginia mining town, and discusses his dreams of launching rockets into outer space, and how he made those dreams come true."
  • "An extraordinary memoir of Homer Sonny Hickam's life. The introspective second son of the mine's superintendent and a mother determined to push her son to a better life, Sonny fell in with a group of misfits. But in 1957, after watching the Soviet satellite Sputnik streak across the sky, Sonny and his buddies took their future into their own hands."

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Downloadable electronic books"
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Memoir"@en

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  • "Rocket boys: a memoir"
  • "Oktoberhemel : een Amerikaanse jeugd in de jaren vijftig"
  • "Rocket boys : a memior"@en
  • "Rocket boys a memoir"@en
  • "Rocket boys a memoir"
  • "Rocket boys"
  • "Rocket boys"@en
  • "Rocket boys. a memoir"@en
  • "Rocket Boys A Memoir"@en
  • "Rocket Boys"@en
  • "Rocket boys : a memoir"@en
  • "Rocket boys : a memoir"
  • "Rocket boys : a true story"

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