An edition of The Coalwood way (2000)

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An edition of The Coalwood way (2000)

The Coalwood way

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"It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching hand-built rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.".

"The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered Homer Sr. is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife, Elsie, is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. And Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl whose dreams are as big as his, finds his own mood repeatedly darkened by an unexplainable sadness.".

"Eager to rally the town's spirits and make her son's final holiday season at home a memorable one, Elsie enlists Sonny and the Rocket Boys' aid in making the Coalwood Christmas Pageant the best ever. But trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider threaten to tear the community apart when it needs to come together most.

And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie's beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch, Sonny 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Pages
318

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Cover of: The Coalwood way
The Coalwood way
2001, Island Books
in English
Cover of: Coalwood Way
Coalwood Way: A Memoir
September 2001, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Coalwood way
The Coalwood way
2000, Delacorte Press
in English
Cover of: The Coalwood way
The Coalwood way
2000, Random House Large Print
in English
Cover of: The Coalwood way
The Coalwood way
2000, Delacorte Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 318 p.
Number of pages
318

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23244674M
Internet Archive
coalwoodway00hick
ISBN 10
0385335164
LCCN
00035884
Library Thing
263274
Goodreads
1777970

First Sentence

"OF ALL THE lessons I learned when I built my rockets, the most important were not about chemistry, physics, or metallurgy, but of virtues, sins, and other true things that shape us as surely as rivers carve valleys, or rain melts mountains, or currents push apart the sea."

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