The #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling memoir that inspired the film "October Sky," <i>Rocket Boys</i> is a uniquely American memoir &#8212; a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space . . . and who made those dreams come true. <p>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 &#8212; at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining. Homer H. Hickam, Jr. http://lakenet.llcoop.org/search/X?Book+Club+in+a+Bag+Rocket+Boys+Hickam 112 2007-12-07T08:31:52-05:00 The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik.<br><a target="_blank" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/pdf/BookClubBag/RocketBoys'); " href="http://www.kdl.org/kdl/pdf/BookClubBag/RocketBoys.pdf">Download a discussion guide for this book</a> 1519 0385333218