Some helpful and fun links for Rocket Boys/Homer:

• Nice Homer interview 4/09
  http://www.vtmagazine.vt.edu/spring09/feature5.html
  
  
• Video interview of Homer:
  http://video.kauffman.org/services/link/bcpid1873832647/bctid1906795723
  
  
• Great Videos and more about the RBoys and Coalwood
  http://web.mac.com/stevendate/Site/The_Rocket_Boys.htm
  
  
• Rocket Boys: the Musical!!! A potential Broadway play...
  http://rocketboysthemusical.com/ Songs, under Audio page
  
  
• http://www.mcdowellwv.com/rocket_boy_smpl.mp3 "They Call Him the Rocket
  Boy" cute song
  
  
• Tribute, by Chris Neil, a student:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU75lboo2R0
  
  
• Chapter 21 of Rocket Boys... fun, by a student
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=nEG-7TAysk8
  
  
• Article about a rocket program for disadvantaged kids that Homer wrote
  for Parade Magazine
  http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_01-21-2007/Rocket_Boys

Related Reading

Ages 3-6

• "The Rocket Book" by Peter S. Newell
  
• "Zoom Rocket, Zoom" by Margaret Mayo
  
• "Roaring Rockets" by Tony Mitton
  
• "On the Launch Pad" by Michael Dahl
  
• "Look to the Stars" by Buzz Aldrin
  
• "The Space Race" by Peter Benoit
  
• "Oliver Who Would Not Sleep!" by Mara Bergman
  
• "To the Moon" by Valerie Bodden
  
• "If I Were An Astronaut" by Eric Braun
  
• "One Giant Leap" by Robert Burleigh
  
• "Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11" by Brian Bloca
  
• "Race Into Space" by David Jefferis
  
• "Space Watch" by Chris Oxlade

Ages 5-8

• "Look to the Stars" by Buzz Aldrin
  
• "Reaching for the Moon" by Buzz Aldrin
  
• "One Giant Leap" by Don Brown
  
• "Hot Air" by Marjorie Priceman
  
• "Midnight on the Moon" (Magic Tree House Series) by Mary Pope-Osborne
  
• "Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon" by
• Andrew Chaikin
  
• "Cosmic" by Frank Cottrell Boyce
  
• "Man on the Moon: How a Photograph Made Anything Seem Possible" by Pamela Dell
  
• "Mike Stellar: Nerves of Steel" by K.A. Holt.
  
• "Mars: You Decide How to Survive" by Hena Khan
  
• "No-Sweat Science: Space and Flight Experiments" by Louis V. Loeschnig
  
• "Space Race" by Tom McGowen
  
• "T-Minus: The Race to the Moon" by Jim Ottaviani
  
• "One Small Step: Celebrating the First Men on the Moon" by Jerry Stone

Ages 6-11

• "Moonshot" by Brian Floca
  
• "Almost Astronauts" by Tanya Leestone
  
• "Mission Control, This is Apollo" by Andrew Chaikin
  
• "One Small Step" by Jerry Stone

Ages 10-13

• "Every Soul a Star" by Wendy Mass

POPULAR MOVIES ABOUT THE SPACE PROGRAM

• "October Sky"
  
• "Apollo 13"
  
• "The Right Stuff"
  
• "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (documentary)"
  
• "In the Shadow of the Moon (documentary)"