<Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> TL789. 85. H53 A3 1998 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The Coalwood Way </Td> </Tr> <P> October Sky (originally published as Rocket Boys) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam Jr . It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town . It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release . Today, it is one of the most often picked community / library reads in the United States . It is also studied in many school systems around the world . October Sky was followed by The Coalwood Way (2000) and Sky of Stone (2002). </P> <P> Rocket Boys was made into a film in 1999, titled October Sky (an anagram of "Rocket Boys"). The book was then re-published as October Sky shortly afterwards . </P>

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