description: "Sonny" Hickam's destiny is altered when his hometown turns out to watch the Soviet Sputnik satellite pass overhead. From that moment, he and his friends determine that they will build a rocket. This is the true story of the boys' adventures from the moment their first rocket destroys a fence.
language: English
title: Rocket Boys
titlecomplete: Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)
genres: Historical, Biography, Science, School, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Space, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 21584
places: West Virginia
series: Coalwood
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Weatherford Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd