num_pages: 4
description: The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir -- 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. Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a marvelously entertaining chronicle of triumph.
language: English
title: Rocket Boys: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Rocket Boys: A Memoir
genres: Biography Memoir, Science, Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Space, Historical, School, Biography
ratings_count: 21595
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: Simon & Schuster Audio