October Sky- Booktalk- Week 7

Hickam, H. (1998). October sky. New York: Island Books.

Have you ever wanted to do something different than what your parents had planned for you? Well so does Sonny Hickam in October Sky. Sonny lives in the small town of Coalwood West Virginia where everything is owned by the coal company. You can’t even live there unless you work for the coal mines. That’s because the coal company owns all the houses and only leases them to workers. All the boys in Coalwood grow up and go to work in the mines. But Sonny has other plans. He wants to build rockets for NASA. In this memoir by Homer Hickam, you’ll read a story of a young boy growing up with a passion for rockets and a rebellion against the town’s norm.