Bucky Stone #1: Making Waves at Hampton Beach High (Bucky Stone Adventures) [Kindle Edition]

David B. Smith (Author)

Book Description

Just one thing keeps Bucky Stone from being the most popular guy at Hampton Beach High. He excels in sports – hoops and baseball both. He’s tall, well-built, drop-dead hot-looking, with a cute girlfriend and straight A’s. He likes to tease and has a great sense of humor.

The one challenge? Bucky is a new born-again Christian, trying to live for Jesus on a very secular high school campus. He’s got his eye on Lisa, who doesn’t know a thing about his “rules of the road” for following Jesus. He’d like to get into JV baseball, a rough-and-tumble atmosphere for sure. And his enthusiasm for the kingdom of God has fellow students and teachers saying: “What is it with that guy, anyway?”

Book #1, Making Waves at Hampton Beach High, sends Bucky and his best friend to the high-altitude ski slopes of Tahoe where a thrilling but treacherous adventure awaits them.

Product Details

• File Size: 363 KB
• Print Length: 126 pages
• Publisher: Review and Herald Publishing Association; 1 edition (January 17, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0035ROW9A
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #446,879 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Winter Sports > Skiing

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Series July 15, 2012

By dthompst

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I enjoyed reading this series immensely. At first I thought it was geared for kids, but I soon discovered that ages 12-100 could enjoy this series as well.

The series captivated my attention throughout. The narrative was easy to follow, and it was hard for me to lay it down. I love sports, and much of the series was based upon Bucky's involvement in sports. The theme of the series is "look how God can use someone who is totally dedicated to Him and who will not compromise his faith regardless what the cost." Such an individual was Bucky Stone. Even though a sports hero, He stood like a mighty cedar tree determined to follow the Lord and share his faith regardless of the consequences.

With this loyalty to God came great conflicts for Bucky. He found out that Salvation's road is not paved with gold, but that there are thorns and thistles along the way-there are overwhelming temptations that threaten to destroy one's strong relationship with God. The thing that impressed me is that Bucky did not give in- he did not lower the Christian flag! He was a modern day Daniel. He would rather be eaten up by Lions than compromise his faith!

I can highly recommend this series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Bucky Stone November 27, 2012

By Sue Graves

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A little too juvenile for my taste, but probably good for teens who are looking for a good book to read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Teen son LOVED this series!!! May 16, 2012

By R. Burns

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To have a boy want to sit and read book after book in a wholesome series is wonderful. My son loved this whole series and highly recommends it!!!

More About the Author

AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.davidbsmithbooks.com

David B. Smith grew up in a missionary family, the second of four sons. His childhood homes were in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand; he attended elementary school there and then went to a boarding high school in Singapore. His father, Pastor Ken Smith, was the former child film star Darwood Kaye, who acted with Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Darla Hood in the Our Gang comedy series. David's 2009 book, "Finding Waldo," tells the fascinating story of how a budding actor instead became a missionary hospital chaplain in Asia. His mother is Jean Venden, cousin to well-known college pastors Lou and Morris Venden. His three brothers are all active as pastors in southern California.

After finishing college with bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics, he taught at the junior high school level for several years before moving on to become a writer and editor for a publisher of religious and health-oriented seminar materials. He credits his work on two monthly kids' newsletters, Planet Earth and Bodywise, with helping him to discover a knack for creative, sometimes zany approaches to finding reader hooks for students. "We spent more time concocting puns and jokes than actually writing the features," he confesses. He then moved into public relations and authoring TV and radio scripts for an evangelical Christian audience, putting in nearly two decades as a scriptwriter. In his role of creating daily radio sermonettes, David co-authored such volumes as "Your Biggest Decision Ever," "Popcorn, the Pearly Gates, and Salvation," "Rising Above Anger," "Time of Terror, Time of Healing," "Aiming For the Pin," "The Music Wars," and "Rock-Solid Living in a Run-Amok World."

His two most popular books are "Watching the War" and "Heaven," both of which went into third printings and sold close to 30,000 copies. He also authored the successful multi-book teen sports series, "Bucky Stone Adventures," with cumulative sales of 60,000. You can download all ten of the Kindle volumes for just ninety-nine cents each.

For just a brief three-year stint, David joined his siblings in the field of ministry, pastoring a small English-speaking Korean congregation in Temple City, California. He has fond memories of his time at Upper Room Fellowship - a church group that finds itself in the narrative for his latest manuscript: "Love in a Distant Land." He then returned to his chosen field of mathematics, as a member of the mathematics department at San Bernardino Valley College.

He and his wife Lisa have two grown daughters, Kami and Karli, who are both schoolteachers, and four grandchildren. David enjoys dabbling in music, and occasionally is invited to play the bass guitar or keyboards along with his nephews, who are musicians on praise teams. He otherwise spends leisure time creating new Powerpoint files for his math lectures, looking for cheap Dodger tickets on StubHub, and going for two-mile walks each morning.

His recent writing includes a trilogy of love stories set in Bangkok, and a new time-travel novel entitled "The Forgiveness Time Portal." He is currently represented by Hartline Literary Agency.