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Rocket Boys: A Memoir
by Homer H. Hickam Jr.
$23.95. 568 pages. 6 x 8 Hardback.
Rocket Boys is the touching and inspiring true story of a group of boys growing up in the mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The launch of Sputnik in the 1950s ignites their imaginations: they begin building rockets with the encouragement of supportive teachers and helpful miners who offered scrap materials. Readers will laugh and cry as Sonny comes to terms with his relationships with his family and achieves success no one in Coalwood dared hope for. In a town dependent on dwindling coal resources, the Rocket Boys allow Coalwood to invest in a different resource: the intelligence and enthusiasm of their young people. The story of Hickam and his Rocket Boys will be released by Universal Studios in a major motion picture entitled October Sky early this spring.

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