he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Virginia Tech. In 2010, Hickam received the Audie Murphy Patriotism Award at the Spirit of America Festival. In 2013, Hickam won the Clarence Cason Award from the University of Alabama for his non-fiction writing. In 2014, Hickam won the Appalachian Heritage Writer's Award at Shepherd University. Books Coalwood series Rocket Boys: A Memoir () The Coalwood Way () Sky of Stone () We Are Not Afraid () Carrying Albert Home () Don't Blow Yourself Up () Josh Thurlow series The Keeper's Son () The Ambassador's Son () The Far Reaches () Non-fiction companion volume: Torpedo Junction () Others Back to the Moon: A Novel () Red Helmet () Torpedo Junction () The Dinosaur Hunter () From Rocket Boys to October Sky An Amazon Kindle Single Paco: The Cat Who Meowed in Space An Amazon Kindle Single The Helium-3 Trilogy: Crater, Crescent, and The Lunar Rescue Company References Further reading Dugger, Charles M. Jr. Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War off America's East Coast, 1942. (book review). Sea Frontiers, Jan-Feb 1990. 36(1), 62. Gates, Anita. Space Cadets: this novel by Homer H. Hickam features an unlikely shuttle crew on its way to the moon (review). The New York Times Review of Books, June 27, 1999. 104(26), pg.19, col.4. Hickam, Homer H. Jr. Keep Your Faith in Space: A Message to the Next Generation of Rocket Boys and Girls. Ad Astra, May–June 1999. 11(3), 28. "A Reflection on Rocket Boys/October Sky in the Science Classroom". Journal of College Science Teaching, May 2000. 29(6), 399. Homer H. Hickam Jr. (aerospace engineer and writer). Current Biography, October 2000. 61(10), 35. Morgan, Robert. Notes from Underground (Sky of Stone review). The New York Times Book Review, October 21, 2001. 106(42), 22. Owens, William T. "Country Roads, Hollers, Coal Towns, and Much More". The Social Studies, July 2000. 91(4), 178. Struckel, Katie. "Remembering with Homer H. Hickam Jr." (interview). Writer's Digest, December 2000. 80(2), 30. Sturdevant, Rick W. The Infinite Journey: Eyewitness Accounts of NASA and the Age of Space (book review). Air Power History, Winter 2001. 48(4), 59. We Are Not Afraid: Strength and Courage for Our Nation from the Town of "October Sky" (book review). Publishers' Weekly, January 28, 2002. 249(4), 283. "We Know Our History (pride in knowing who you are)". Publishers' Weekly, January 14, 2002. 249(2), S1. External links 1943 births Living people People from McDowell County,