by Homer Hickam
"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 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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