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Rocket Boys

Homer Hickam
Rocket Boys Book PDF

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Delta
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385333214

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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. With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph—at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining. Now with 8 pages of photographs. A number-one New York Times bestseller in mass market, brought to the screen in the acclaimed film October Sky, Homer Hickam's memoir, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, comes to trade paperback with an all-new photo insert. One of the most beloved bestsellers in recent years, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir. A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, it is the story of a mother's love and a father's fears, of growing up and getting out. With the grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true. A story of romance and loss and a keen portrait of life at an extraordinary point in American history, Rocket Boys is a chronicle of triumph.

Rocket Boy

Damon Lehrer
Rocket Boy Book PDF

Author : Damon Lehrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1567925871

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What would you do if your doodles became real? If they rose right off the page, turning tangible, and through them you could fly to the moon, discover the deep sea, or visit remote jungles? In Rocket Boy, a bewitchingly wordless black-and-white picture book reminiscent of Harold and the Purple Crayon, one young child explores the boundless reaches of his imagination. Armed only with a pencil and a pad of paper, he transports himself into adventures where he meets new friends, visits unseen landscapes, and makes his way back home again to his own bed before dawn. Damon Lehrer's visual narrative, a penciled mix of line work and detailed graphite drawings, materializes in the mind, making the use of words superfluous. Lehrer opens up a charming imaginary world to readers of all ages through this little boy who quite literally draws us in.

Rust Vol. 3

Royden Lepp
Rust Vol 3 Book PDF

Author : Royden Lepp
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781608868964

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While searching for his place in the Taylor family, Jet, the rocket boy, must face his past and avoid Oswald's plot to rid the farm of him.

Rocket Boy

Katie Jennings
Rocket Boy Book PDF

Author : Katie Jennings
Publisher : Colour Fiction
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788952022

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Did you know that the sky on Mars is red? Callum Grant does - and he knows a whole lot more about the solar system too. But he doesn't know what it would be like to see a Martian sunset with his own eyes. Until one day Callum sets off on an adventure unlike any other... An uplifting story about the power of imagination, with full colour illustrations on every page.

The Coalwood Way

Homer Hickam
The Coalwood Way Book PDF

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Island Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307423320

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It's 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 thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads. The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered HomerSr. is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife Elsie is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. And Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl whose dreams are as big as his, finds his own mood repeatedly darkened by an unexplainable sadness. Eager to rally the town's spirits and make her son's final holiday season at home a memorable one, Elsie enlists Sonny and the Rocket Boys' aid in making the Coalwood Christmas Pageant the best ever. But trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider threaten to tear the community apart when it most needs to come together. And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie's beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch, Sonny realizes that helping his town and redeeming himself in his mother's eyes may be a bigger-and more rewarding-challenge than he has ever faced. The result is pure storytelling magic- a tale of small-town parades and big-hearted preachers, the timeless love of families and unforgettable adventures of boyhood friends-that could only come from the man who brought the world Rocket Boys

Sky of Stone

Homer Hickam
Sky of Stone Book PDF

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Dell
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780440240921

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Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York Times crowned his first book, the #1 national bestseller October Sky, “an eloquent evocation ... a thoroughly charming memoir.” And People called The Coalwood Way, Hickam’s follow-up to October Sky, “a heartwarmer ... truly beautiful and haunting.” Now Homer Hickam continues his extraordinary story with Sky of Stone, dazzling us with exquisite storytelling as he takes us back to that remarkable small town we first came to know and love in October Sky. In the summer of ‘61, Homer “Sonny” Hickam, a year of college behind him, was dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny could reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother was spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny’s father, the mine’s superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man’s death—and the townspeople are in conflict over the future of the town. Sonny’s mother, Elsie, has commanded her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. But within hours, Sonny realizes two things: His father, always cool and distant with his second son, doesn’t want him there ... and his parents’ marriage has begun to unravel. For Sonny, so begins a summer of discovery—of love, betrayal, and most of all, of a brooding mystery that threatens to destroy his father and his town. Cut off from his college funds by his father, Sonny finds himself doing the unimaginable: taking a job as a “track-laying man,” the toughest in the mine. Moving out to live among the miners, Sonny is soon dazzled by a beautiful older woman who wants to be the mine’s first female engineer. And as the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself changing in surprising ways, taking the first real steps toward adulthood. But it’s a journey he can make only by peering into the mysterious heart of Coalwood itself, and most of all, by unraveling the story of a man’s death and a father’s secret. In Sky of Stone, Homer Hickam looks down the corridors of his past with love, humor, and forgiveness, brilliantly evoking a close-knit community where everyone knows everything about each other’s lives—except the things that matter most. Sky of Stone is a memoir that reads like a novel, mesmerizing us with rich language, narrative drive, and sheer storytelling genius.

Soldier Boy

Keely Hutton
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Author : Keely Hutton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374305642

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An unforgettable novel based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fourteen was forced to fight as a soldier in the guerrilla army of notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in the Ugandan civil war (one of Africa's longest running conflicts). Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops dreaming of escape. The story continues twenty years later, with a fictionalized character named Samuel, a boy deathly afraid of trusting anyone ever again. Samuel is representative of the thousands of child soldiers Ricky eventually helped rehabilitate as founder of the internationally acclaimed charity Friends of Orphans. Working closely with Ricky himself, debut author Keely Hutton has written an eye-opening book about a boy’s unbreakable spirit and indomitable courage in the face of unimaginable horror. This title has Common Core connections.

Don’t Blow Yourself Up

Homer Hickam
Don t Blow Yourself Up Book PDF

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781642938258

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Homer Hickam’s memoir Rocket Boys and the movie adaptation October Sky have become one of the most popular stories in the world, inspiring millions to pursue a better life. But what happened to Homer after he was a West Virginia rocket boy? In his latest memoir, Homer recounts his life in college where he built the world's biggest, baddest game cannon, fought through some of the worst battles in Vietnam, became a scuba instructor, discovered sunken U-boats, wrote the definitive account of a World War II naval battle, befriended Tom Clancy, made a desperate attempt to save the passengers of a sunken river boat, trained the first Japanese astronauts, taught David Letterman to scuba dive, helped to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, wrote his number one bestselling Rocket Boys, and was on set during the making of October Sky. Although told with humor and wit, Hickam does not shy away from the pain and hardship endured and the mistakes he made during the tumultuous decades since his life in the town he made famous—Coalwood, West Virginia.

Red Helmet

Homer Hickam
Red Helmet Book PDF

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781418537203

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Song Hawkins is a beautiful, tough, but lonely New York City businesswoman who thinks she's met the man of her dreams in Cable Jordan, the superintendent of a West Virginia coal mine. But soon after they impulsively marry, Song realizes they're in big trouble. She can't imagine life outside of New York, and Cable has no intention of leaving his beloved town of Highcoal. Song's visit to the little mining community only makes things worse. It looks like the marriage is over. But in a shocking turn of events, Song realizes it's up to her to put on the red helmet of the new coal miner and descend into the deep darkness. There she faces her greatest challenge with choices and courage that will forever impact the life of Cable and the entire town.

Future Weapons of War

Joe Haldeman,Martin Harry Greenberg
Future Weapons of War Book PDF

Author : Joe Haldeman,Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618245564

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Future Weapons of War by Joe Haldeman,Martin Harry Greenberg Pdf

A volume of visions of future wars, fought with weapons out of nightmare, by today's top writers of military science fiction, as well as some writers who are not usually associated with military SF, such as best-selling writer Gregory Benford, and award-winning author Kristine Katherine Rusch. Also present are Michael Z. Williamson, author of the strong selling novels Freehold and The Weapon, award-winning author of Bolo Strike, William H. Keith, and more. Through the centuries, weapons have changed radically, but the soldier has remained much the same. But in the future, soldiers, too, may undergo radical changes. As editor Joe Haldeman puts it, "Weapons are an extension of the soldier, and also an extension of the culture or species that produced the soldier. And they are sometimes more dangerous to the soldier than the enemy. . . ." At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

October Sky

Homer H. Hickam
October Sky Book PDF

Author : Homer H. Hickam
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0606189343

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October Sky by Homer H. Hickam Pdf

Originally published as "Rocket Boys", this bestseller--based on a true story--follows a group of boys in a small West Virginia town in 1957 as they light up the skies with their flaming rockets and dreams of glory. This edition includes 8 pages of photos.

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension Year 2

Charlotte Makhlouf
Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension Year 2 Book PDF

Author : Charlotte Makhlouf
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857474964

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Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension Year 2 by Charlotte Makhlouf Pdf

The importance of being able to read for meaning should never be underestimated. The ability to decode text is not enough. It is vital that children understand what they are reading. More importantly, it is fundamental that they enjoy what they are reading, so that they grow up to become lifelong readers. The passages in the Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension series are designed to do just that. They provide children with a variety of engaging, enjoyable texts that will grab their attention, and indeed their teacher's attention as well. The types of comprehension passages range from newspaper articles and dialogues, to plays, stories and poems. They gradually increase in difficulty as you progress though the book, and through the series, encouraging children to develop their ability to read for meaning and use a range of strategies to engage with the text. Tasks range from simple factual recall and vocabulary work to more open -ended questions enabling the reader to provide a more personal response. The cross-curricular activities provide a wealth of ideas for extending the passages further and are ideal for fast-finishers.

The Boy who Played with Fusion

Tom Clynes
The Boy who Played with Fusion Book PDF

Author : Tom Clynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544085114

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The Boy who Played with Fusion by Tom Clynes Pdf

Offers an account of child genius Taylor Wilson's successful quest to build his own nuclear reactor at the age of 14, and an exploration of how gifted children can be nurtured to do extraordinary things. 35,000 first printing. Illustrations.

The Politics of Identity

Michelle Harris,Martin Nakata,Bronwyn Carlson
The Politics of Identity Book PDF

Author : Michelle Harris,Martin Nakata,Bronwyn Carlson
Publisher : UTS ePRESS
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780987236920

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The Politics of Identity by Michelle Harris,Martin Nakata,Bronwyn Carlson Pdf

The issue of Indigenous identity has gained more attention in recent years from social science scholars, yet much of the discussions still centre on the politics of belonging or not belonging. While these recent discussions in part speak to the complicated and contested nature of Indigeneity, both those who claim Indigenous identity and those who write about it seem to fall into a paradox of acknowledging its complexity on the one hand, while on the other hand reifying notions of ‘tradition’ and ‘authentic cultural expression’ as core features of an Indigenous identity. Since identity theorists generally agree that who we understand ourselves to be is as much a function of the time and place in which we live as it is about who we and others say we are, this scholarship does not progress our knowledge on the contemporary characteristics of Indigenous identity formations. The range of international scholars in this volume have begun an approach to the contemporary identity issues from very different perspectives, although collectively they all push the boundaries of the scholarship that relate to identities of Indigenous people in various contexts from around the world. Their essays provide at times provocative insights as the authors write about their own experiences and as they seek to answer the hard questions: Are emergent identities newly constructed identities that emerge as a function of historical moments, places, and social forces? If so, what is it that helps to forge these identities and what helps them to retain markers of Indigeneity? And what are some of the challenges (both from outside and within groups) that Indigenous individuals face as they negotiate the line between ‘authentic’ cultural expression and emergent identities? Is there anything to be learned from the ways in which these identities are performed throughout the world among Indigenous groups? Indeed why do we assume claims to multiple racial or ethnic identities limits one’s Indigenous identity? The question at the heart of our enquiry about the emerging Indigenous identities is when is it the right time to say me, us, we… them?

Rust: The Boy Soldier

Royden Lepp
Rust The Boy Soldier Book PDF

Author : Royden Lepp
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781608868063

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Rust: The Boy Soldier by Royden Lepp Pdf

Caught in the middle of an ongoing war, Jet Jones, a robot made to look like a boy and built for battle, discovers that there is more to him than he ever could have imagined, sending him on a journey to learn what is means to be both hero and human.