Smooth Sailing Press Llc: 31 books

While visiting her father in Oxford, England, young Meriwether Knight's natural curiosity and quick wit come in handy as she is unsuspectingly thrown into the middle of an international antiquities theft ring. What happened between her father and grandparents that has kept them separated by...

Secrets shroud a house in mystery, and a family is haunted by an eerie presence, a watcher from the wood . . . . Join seventh grader, Meriwether Knight, as she travels back to England to meet the grandparents she's never known; who up until now have never wanted to know her. What she discovers there...

When small-town newspaper reporter Rick Hoskins gets physically assaulted along a rural Texas road, he thinks the time has come for him to hang up his pen and notepad. Before he can tender his resignation, though, a police officer's house is burned to the ground, a confidential informant is murdered,...

Intrepid amateur sleuth, Meriwether Knight, is back in Texas, along with the father who's not been home in 25 years. The discovery of an ancient fossil in a hidden cave at the family ranch leads to a town in uproar and a possible murder investigation. Cryptic warnings and danger abound, and Meriwether...

Desperate to escape her home in a poverty-stricken, 1883 Ireland, Kathleen Macavee sails to America to marry a man she knows nothing about. Kathleen is pleasantly surprised upon meeting the handsome Drew Bryant. But will that be enough to fall in love? Will Kathleen be prepared for her new life as a wife in a strange land?

Telly Finkle is a young, plain, slender brown snake that lives in a deep, quiet hole under a smooth, flat gray rock. Telly doesn't have many friends in the forest. One reason is because Telly smells awful. None of the animals in the forest know that Telly is afraid of water, but what everyone does...

Priscilla Penelope Paxton is a witty ten year old whose interests and curiosity land her in, sometimes, sticky situations.Dance classes, Girl Scouts, school assignments, friends and hanging out at her family's drug store, and the local Piggly Wiggly would leave any other person with no time for anything...

As the hot pink hyena flies through the sky with some bumpity bumps, he notices a boy down below sitting all alone in the dumpity dumps. The hot pink hyena parachutes in, bringing happiness and cheer and his greatest skill: imagination.  Together they discover the fun that awaits in and around...

In this delightful book, author Pat Farmer takes a unique approach to sharing the gospel with young readers. In her story, Farmer is the Nanny and her husband, Popo, share a beach experience of finding a gafftopsail catfish skull in the sand. The author uses this experience to depict Christ on the...

Theodore Howard wants a white flag. The kind of white flag that will show Riverwood Elementary’s biggest bully, Theo’s given up on ever surviving the fourth grade, and achieving his dream of becoming a real-life astronaut. But, Theo’s seemingly pathetic future gets a glimmer of hope in the form...

When Annie accompanies Park Ranger Jake Pitchett to Bastrop State Park to help in fighting the Texas wildfires, disaster turns Annie into an injured hero.  As she is honored by her Utopia fans for her heroism, her family learns that Annie is facing a life-threatening illness.  Supported by family and friends, Annie faces the toughest challenge of her life.

The imagination of the author takes us in to jungles of Africa where we find a young zebra less than content with his stripes. It seems that all of the other animals in the jungle and on the savannah have much more interesting marks and coloring. Would it be better to be like one of the other...

Perez weaves a delightful tale in rhyme for the young reader.  Animals of the southwest come alive in this imaginative story of the “Texas Critter Band.”  Each critter brings his own spin to the music in the air that is uniquely “Texan.”  Perez writes with a charming Texas twang...

In a fresh re-telling of the fairy tale classic, "Cindy Lou Ella" is transformed into the Belle-of-the-Ball by her two fairy godmothers Pearlene and Adele ...who just happen to be an opossum and an armadillo! In a whirlwind of stardust, Cindy Lou Ella meets her prince charming, the handsome Joe Billy, the heir to his daddy's successful tractor parts store!