Book Discussion title at Corporate Parkway Branch
... I'm sure everyone has seen the wonderful movie "October Sky". If not, check it out, pop some popcorn and be prepared to be transported back to a time and place when learning in America cost the same amount as an iron train rail.
America in the '50s. A time of "Father Knows Best" on the tube (not that I remember this), Elvis Presley was on the radio, and the price of bread was $0.14 cents. The world was rosy. But on October 4, 1957, the sunny landscape darkened with the passage of Sputnik overhead.
Sputnik electrified everyone, but it especially charged a young man from Coalwood, West Virginia. Homer Hickam was expected to follow his father's plan; graduate from high school, enter the mine, and eventually fill his father's shoes as foreman. Homer had different plans; he wanted to build rockets.
Homer teams with 3 other boys to create what was to become known as the "Rocket Boys". Together the boys rebel against an established town mindset, and expand the future of everyone in Coalwood.
This title has a lot of themes to discuss:
Boy coming of age
Space program
Small town in the 1950's
Father and sons
I'd like to recommend the title for future discussions ... because it's one of the few books I've read for Book Discussion that leaves you with a big ol' smile at the end.
Stacey - CP Book Club
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