by Homer Hickam
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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