Lewis lives in the small town of Slippery Falls, Idaho, where for some time he has dreamed of catching an enormous trout that lives in a small pool behind a waterfall. But on Lewis's sixteenth birthday, his adoptive parents hand him a letter that his real mother left with him in his baby basket. Lewis is shocked to discover that he is French and seemingly linked to French royalty.

For Lewis, now unsure of his origin, fishing for the trout becomes a quest to discover who he really is. Just as he is about to nab his fish, he accidentally falls into the water and nearly dies.

The King of Slippery Falls is a touching and good-hearted novel about the search for self and the power of belief.

Sid Hite was named a Publishers Weekly “Flying Start” for his first book, Dither Farm. His nine subsequent novels have garnered extraordinary acclaim, including most recently Stick and Whittle, which School Library Journal called “a treasure,” and A Hole in the World, hailed by Smithsonian magazine as “a masterpiece.” He lives in a converted church near the banks of the Hudson River in New York state.