Rocket Boys (October Sky) by Homer Hickam
Rocket Boys 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.
Rocket Boys was made into a film in 1999, titled October Sky (an anagram of “Rocket Boys”). The book was then republished as October Sky shortly afterwards.
Read more about Homer Hickam at www.homerhickam.com
