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Rocket Boys: A Memoir (The Coalwood Series #1) by Homer Hickam 1998 third printing, Delacorte Press (New York), rebound in 6 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches tall green leather embossed gilt ruling and designs to front cover, six raised bands and gilt designs and lettering to spine, xii, 368 pp. Slight to moderate soiling and rubbing to covers.Moderate soiling to page edges.Slight soiling or creasing to a few pages. Otherwise, a very good copy, giving a splendid shelf appearance in a magnificent custom leather binding. The first memoir in a series of four by American engineer Homer Hickam Jr., originally published in 1998 as Rocket Boys. Later editions were published under the title October Sky as a tie-in to the 1999 film adaptation by that name. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in that town. The book won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998. 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. Rocket Boys / October Sky was followed by The Coalwood Way (2000), Sky of Stone (2002), and Carrying Albert Home (2015). Rocket Boys was made into a film in 1999, titled October Sky (an anagram of 'Rocket Boys').
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