Rocket boys : a memoir

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Label

Rocket boys : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Homer H. Hickam, Jr

Title variation

October sky

Creator

• trueHickam, Homer H., 1943-
• Hickam, Homer H., 1943-

Author

• Hickam, Homer H., 1943-

Subject

• trueBooks to movies
• trueChildhood -- Anecdotes
• trueCoal mining towns
• Coalwood (W. Va.) -- Social life and customs
• Eliot Rosewater nominee, 2000-2001
• Hickam, Homer H, 1943-
• trueHickam, Homer H, 1943-
• trueHigh school boys
• trueLife stories -- Science, technology, and medicine | Scientists and inventors
• trueScience Writing -- Physics
• trueAerospace engineers -- Biography
• Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueScience Writing -- Space and Flight
• trueSmall town life
• trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• trueUnited States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Genre

• trueBooks to movies
• trueLife stories
• trueScience Writing
• trueBiography
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueAnecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

The story of a young boy growing up in Coalwood, West Virginia during the 1950's, who dreams of building rockets

Tone

• trueBittersweet

Writing style

• trueDescriptive

Award

• Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 1998.
• New York Times Notable Book, 1998
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2000

Awards note

Eliot Rosewater nominee, 2000-2001

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 629.1092273
• 920

Index

no index present

Intended audience

900

Intended audience source

Lexile

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult