“Man, Stone, what is it with you anyway?”

He’s a nice enough guy, but students at Hampton Beach High figure out pretty quick that this newcomer is definitely a Jesus freak. Bucky’s dad isn’t ready to send his son to a Christian academy, so he’s about to set foot on a high school campus for the first time. He’s decent in sports and is soon a budding star on the Panthers’ JV baseball team. He joins the ski club and finds himself struggling through a Lake Tahoe blizzard to rescue a damsel in distress. Speaking of damsels, Bucky seems to bump into more than his share of romantic escapades! This combo book is a bargain way to sample the first two stories: "Making Waves at Hampton Beach High" and "Showdown at Home Plate."

Bucky Stone Adventures is 10 exciting stories all packed with home runs and buzzer-beater three-point hoops, along with flirty text messages, a kidnapping scare, bank robberies, and even a mission trip to downtown Bangkok where our hero promptly gets himself lost in the big, bad city. There’s plenty of humor and teasing, but in the end a young man’s faith has to give him a path forward when there’s a cheating scandal in history class or impossible-to-forgive grudge on the basketball court.

David B. Smith spent his childhood in Thailand as a missionary kid, and enjoys creating faith-based stories for kids and young adults. You're invited to check out his new ten-volume Rachel Marie series of love stories all set at a fictional Bangkok Christian School. He's also penned a trilogy of faith-based time travel novels; details are available at davidbsmithbooks.com.

Recently retired after 15 fun years as a math professor at San Bernardino Valley College, he now spends leisure time on long walks with his wife Lisa, and endlessly schemes about ways to beat his four awesome grandkids—Kira, Katrina, Miles, and Audrey—at games of Sorry. An impossible task since they are notorious cheaters.