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October Sky - Homer Hickam
October Sky
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Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN: 9780606189347 (0606189343)
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Series: Coalwood
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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
5.0 October Sky (The Coalwood Series #1)
"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...
Buresh on Books
Buresh on Books rated it
3.0
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...
Overloaded Bookshelf
Overloaded Bookshelf rated it
4.0 Rocket Boys
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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