Book
Rocket Boys
by Homer Hickam
- Published
- 1998
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Pages
- 384
- Words
- 129931
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96642.Rocket_Boys?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_11
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.9
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 900L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives. I didn't know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl, virtuous at least in spirit, could mend it on the same night. And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added. The other boys discovered their own truths when we built our rockets, but those were mine.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780008172275
- ISBN-10
- 0008172277
Tags
CommunityFamily LifeFamily Life-Growing UpInterpersonal Relationships-FriendshipMemoirOctober SkyRocketsSchoolWork