From Rocket Boys to October Sky

  My Dream of Stars (coauthor: Anousheh Ansari)

  COALWOOD SERIES

  Rocket Boys (aka October Sky)

  The Coalwood Way

  Sky of Stone

  We Are Not Afraid

  JOSH THURLOW SERIES

  The Keeper’s Son

  The Ambassador’s Son

  The Far Reaches

  HELIUM-3 SERIES

  Crater

  Crescent

  Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company

  Credits

  Cover design by Adam Johnson

  Cover photographs: © by Glasshouse Images / Alamy (car); © by Lake County Discovery Museum/UIG/Bridgeman Images (alligator); courtesy of Don O’Brien (passengers); courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (background)

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

  CARRYING ALBERT HOME. Copyright © 2015 by Homer Hickam. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

  Rooster image by GGRIGOROV/Shutterstock, Inc.

  Palm tree image by tomertu/Shutterstock, Inc.

  Albert image by Don Howard

  Author photograph by Linda Terry Hickam

  EPub Edition October 2015 ISBN 9780062325914

  ISBN 978-0-06-232589-1 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-0-06-243112-7 (international edition)

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  Homer Hickam, Carrying Albert Home

 


 

 
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