Simultaneous release with the Dell hardcover (Forecasts, Sept. Either one plays football, the town sport, or one goes to work in the coal mines of the town.

With Christmas fast approaching, the tension in the town grows as layoffs threaten miners' jobs, until Sonny's father takes a huge risk to save them and the town's livelihood. Coalwood is the small town prototype in America of the 1950s.

What motivated his friends to join him in his endeavors at Cape Coalwood5. Its fall, 1959, and Homer Sonny Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar. To his children, he is a formidable man, and his imaginative second son, Homer Jr., aka ''Sonny,'' obsessed with the 1950s space race, does not want to follow in his father's black, dusty footprints. Name: Period: Date: Video Questions for October Sky 1. Homer Hickam Sr., the author's father, is the superintendent of the mine and resented by the workers. His voice and perspective-as a man looking back on his childhood-convincingly conveys experience and a reminiscent tone, while at the same time sounding so full of youthful exuberance that listeners will be certain they hear the voice of teenage Homer himself. 4 / 5 Stars I was sitting in the theater in Richmond, VA, watching this film with my girlfriend about 2 weeks ago. Not really a sequel to Hickam's first memoir, Rocket Boys (which was made into the successful movie, October Sky, and dealt primarily with his gang of misfit friends and their inventive, adventurous exploits) this book, set around Christmas 1959, is a study of the town of Coalwood and how a fast-moving world affects a small community resistant to change and the introspective teenage boy in its midst.

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