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Sonny's Rocket Boys
Sonny is the one who started the rocket building idea, but if he didn’t get the help from his high school classmate, Quentin, maybe nothing would had happened. Quentin is the school nerd, and he knows a lot about science. Mr. Bykovsky is a company man who was a shop worker, until Sonny’s dad changes his position because he helped sonny and his friends to build rockets by providing the supplies for their rockets. Miss Riley is the chemistry teacher who was one of the very critical supporters for the rocket boys. She found the book that the rocket boys were looking for to help them with their rocket building, and she convinced the school’s principal that the rocket boys can really achieve their dreams. Even the school principal,
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