Rocket Boys: A Memoir
by Hickam, Homer
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385333218
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333214
- Seller
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Tolar, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delta Kappa Gamma, 2000. Wraps have rubbed edges. Pages are tanning at margin edges, no markings in text. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
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 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.
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- Bookseller
- Top Notch books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200971B
- Title
- Rocket Boys: A Memoir
- Author
- Hickam, Homer
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385333218
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333214
- Publisher
- Delta Kappa Gamma
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Space Race Americana
- Size
- 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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