October Sky: A Memoir
by:
Homer Hickam (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780780799981 (0780799984)
Publish date: February 1st 1999
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Science,
Space,
Biography Memoir
Series: Coalwood
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch That could act as a summary to the book. At fourteen-years-old Homer Hickam was an average student with no real ambition in a dying town--and then in 1957 Sputnick swept over the October skies of West Virginia. It inspire...
This book left me with a really good feeling. It reminds me of the movie, Stand By Me. This story is about a group of young boys that are from a small town - and they end up doing great things. Of course, no one expects them to do anything but work in the coal mines. This group of boys aspire to...
This is a great coming-of-age story about a group of boys in a backwoods mining town who dream of becoming rocket scientists. Uplifting but not too syrupy sweet.
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