num_pages: 448
description: Based on the book Rocket Boys, this feature film by Universal Pictures premieres in theaters in February and stars Chris Cooper and Laura Dern. Originally published as Rocket Boys, this novelization is the official movie tie-in to the movie. Available now.
language: English
title: October Sky
titlecomplete: October Sky
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: Island Books