The King Of Slippery Falls - Hardcover

Hite, Sid

3.27

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9780439342575: The King Of Slippery Falls

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0439342570 ISBN 13: 9780439342575

Publisher: Scholastic Press, 2004

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"What story will you tell with your life?"
In this jewel of a novel, Sid Hite addresses this question and delivers his most commanding and resplendent performance yet.

Lewis Hinton is in pursuit of two things--an elusive giant trout & his true identity. His adoptive parents, Martha & Avery Hinton, know they must let him search for clues about his past. His eccentric neighbor, Mrs Baderhoovernisterah, advises him to heed the plot twisters in life. His best friend, Amanda Dot, just wants him to fall in love w/ her. And the townspeople of Slippery Falls are determined to discover if the letter from Lewis's birth mother confirms the rumor--Is he descended from French royalty? Could this simple boy from Idaho really be a king?

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 6-8-While fishing for an elusive giant white trout lurking in a river near his small Idaho town, 16-year-old Lewis Hinton, an adopted teen, stumbles across information that might link his biological parents to French royalty. He humbly reveals his discovery in confidence to his closest friend and undisclosed object of affection, Amanda Dot. Of course, she inadvertently begins to spin and spread a web of gossip that ultimately crowns Lewis as the unhappy "King of Slippery Falls." Throughout this calm backwoods novel, Hite weaves in an assorted bunch of offbeat and likable characters: a wise magilike elderly woman; a teenaged jet-setter whom Lewis fears has eyes for Amanda; and patient, believably caring parents who support Lewis's search for his heritage. Hite's rich language is rewardingly easy to follow. And while the often-predictable plot isn't exactly electrifying, Slippery Falls remains a solid, humorously enjoyable blend of fact and fish story.
Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library
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From Booklist:

Gr. 6-9. As his sixteenth birthday looms, Lewis Hinton, who was adopted at birth, is feeling uncertain. Lewis' 88-year-old friend, Maple Baderhoovenlisterah, tells him he is having an identity crisis and that "life is a strange journey." In fact, Lewis' life starts getting a whole lot stranger after he receives a mysterious letter from his birth mother and learns that he might be the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson of a French king. There aren't too many folks in Slippery Falls, Idaho, who can say that. But is it true? Well, if, as the opinionated Maple also asserts, we all tell stories with our lives, then Lewis' is one whopper of a fish tale, almost as extravagant as the king-size trout he has been trying to catch. Hite has a lot of quirky fun with this offbeat story of a nice kid who may or may not find himself--but at least learns where to look. Michael Cart
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