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And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie's beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch,\u003cbr\u003eSonny 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is pure storytelling magic - a tale of small-town parades and big-hearted preachers, the timeless love of families and unforgettable\u003cbr\u003eadventures of boyhood friends-that could only come from the man who brought the world Rocket Boys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A heartwarmer … truly beautiful and haunting.”—People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Irresistible … as compelling and rousing as a NASA liftoff.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Compelling … riveting … extremely satisfying reading.”—Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[A] sparkling memoir.”—Chicago Sun-Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHomer H. 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Sonny's father, the mine superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man's death, and the townspeople are in conflict over the future of the town. Sonny finds himself taking a job as a \"track-laying man,\" the toughest in the mine. Sonny is soon dazzled by a beautiful older woman who wants to be the mine's first female engineer. Hickam looks at his past with love, humor, and forgiveness, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHomer 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSonny'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCut 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. 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The launch of Sputnik in the 1950s ignites their imaginations: they begin building rockets with the encouragement of supportive teachers and helpful miners who offered scrap materials. Readers will laugh and cry as Sonny comes to terms with his relationships with his family and achieves success no one in Coalwood dared hope for. In a town dependent on dwindling coal resources, the Rocket Boys allow Coalwood to invest in a different resource: the intelligence and enthusiasm of their young people. 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The introspective son of the mine's superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the Hickams, would never be the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A thoroughly charming memoir…[an] eloquent evocation of a lost time and place. . . . Mr. Hickam builds a story of overcoming obstacles worthy of Frank Capra, especially in its sweetness and honest sentimentality.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Hickam] is a very adept storyteller–.–.–.–It’s a good bet this is the story as he told it to himself. It is a lovely one, and in the career of Homer H. Hickam, Jr., who prevailed over the facts of his life to become a NASA engineer training astronauts for space walks, that made all the difference.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hickam has a great story to tell. . . . Rocket Boys will certainly strike a nostalgic chord in anyone who grew up during the early days of the space race, but its appeal goes beyond that. . . . 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