where can i find book summaries for the book "rocket boys/October sky"?

Question

this book is by homer hickam jr. can be found under the name "rocket boys" or "october sky"

Answer 1

Aw, c'mon. It's a good book. Read it and write your own summary. Here's what the author says about being the leader of the "Rocket Boys." It's his summary of the activities covered in his own book. Enjoy!

"The Rocket Boys were a group of six teenagers in southern West Virginia who were so excited when the Russians launched Sputnik I in 1957 that they formed a club called the Big Creek Missile Agency to learn how to build rockets. Big Creek was the name of their high school.

The members of the BCMA were Homer "Sonny" Hickam (me), Quentin Wilson, Roy Lee Cooke, O'Dell Carroll, Billy Rose, and Sherman Siers. All of the boys except Quentin were from Coalwood. Quentin was from Bartley, a small coal camp a few miles away. All of our fathers worked in the coalmines and most of us had never traveled outside the state.

"Starting with no knowledge of how to build a rocket, we began to try to learn all we could. At first, we failed everything we tried. Gradually, we began to learn and soon we were building rockets that were going over 1,000 feet high. At first, the people of Coalwood opposed what we were doing because we made a lot of noise and smoke but after awhile, most Coalwoodians began to help us. The preacher in town preached a sermon that got us our launch range, which we called Cape Coalwood. Miss Freida Riley, our chemistry and physics teacher got us a book, Principles of Guided Missile Design, and also suggested we enter local science fairs to bring honor to our school and town. After three years of experimentation, we were able to fly a rocket over four miles high. We entered the local science fairs, won them, then went to the 1960 National Science Fair where we won a gold medal. I wrote about the Rocket Boys in my book Rocket Boys: A Memoir and also in a follow-up book titled The Coalwood Way.

"These books were adapted into the movie October Sky. October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys. Hollywood felt that Rocket Boys would not be a good title for a movie because it sounded like it was about astronauts rather than coal miner's kids."

Answer 2

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