What is the book October Sky about?

October Sky (the title on the mass market movie tie-in version of the best-selling The Rocket Boys) is the first memoir in a series of four, 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.

October Sky (the title on the mass market movie tie-in version of the best-selling The Rocket Boys) is the first memoir in a series of four, 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.