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Cielo de octubre (Rocket Boys)
Author: Homer Hickam
Narrator: Alberto Santillan
Unabridged: 14 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Published: 11/28/2017

Author: Homer Hickam
Narrator: Alberto Santillan
Unabridged: 14 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Published: 11/28/2017
Homer Hickam (also known as Homer H. Hickam, Jr.) is the bestselling and award-winning author of many books, including the #1 New York Times memoir Rocket Boys, which was adapted into the popular film October Sky. A writer since grade school, he is also a Vietnam veteran, a former coal miner, a scuba instructor, an avid amateur paleontologist, and a retired engineer. He lives in Alabama and the Virgin Islands.
The story of Homer Hickam who while growing up in now extinct Coalwood, West Virginia, forms a group of higher reaching miner's son's who become proficient backyard rocket launchers and provide much needed hope to the entire town. If you're of an age to remember Sputnik and the great arms race and e......more
Homer Hickam Jr. Homer Hickam Jr. is an American author, a Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer. In this memoir, Hickam describes his coming of age in Coalwood, West Virginia. ***** When Homer Hickam Jr. (nicknamed Sonny) is a boy in Coalwood, West Virginia in the mid-1900s, it's a 'company......more
This book was fabulous. It is the type of book I will be lending to everyone. It is mostly a true story (though the author admits to taking some license) about Homer Hickam, Jr. and his rocket building club. Hickam grew up in a mining town in which the only job choice was to become a miner. His moth......more
Interesting that "October Sky" (the name of the movie) is an anagram of "Rocket Boys" (the name of the book - the original name anyway). Although I was a teenager more than a decade later than Hickam was, some of the things he wrote about hit close to home. I, too, grew up in a rural area - on a dirt......more
Loved it! The sequels are not as good as he milks the story for more and more books, but the original is fantastic. I've read this three or four times and bought the movie (October Sky). This is a great book about coming of age and relationships and meeting your goals and is great for all kids.......more