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With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph—at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining.
One of the most beloved bestsellers in recent years, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir. A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, it is the story of a mother's love and a father's fears, of growing up and getting out. With the grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true.
A story of romance and loss and a keen portrait of life at an extraordinary point in American history, Rocket Boys is a chronicle of triumph.

Kindle Book
- Release date: April 1, 1999
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780440333876
- Release date: April 1, 1999
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780440333876
- File size: 3201 KB
- Release date: April 1, 1999

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Kindle Book
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Languages
English
Levels
ATOS Level:5.9
Lexile® Measure:900
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:4-5