Books with author Steven Burt

Winner of the 2010 Mom's Choice Award, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, and the London, Paris, NY, Hollywood, San Francisco, and New England Book Awards for Young Adults. Free Camp, which somehow became known as FreeK Camp, is for special kids. But just how special most people will never know. Two vans are on their way to the camp in rustic New England, their passengers just starting to get acquainted. One van makes it. The other mysteriously disappears. Now each group of kids must bond together to discover and use their paranormal and psychic powers. The lives of one group literally depend on it. Part mystery thriller, part detective story, part sci-fi, "FreeK Camp" is all hold-your-breath-I-didn’t-see-that-coming adventure. Available in print, ebook, and audio book read by actress Melissa Epp.

With a compass to direct him in his job as a forward observer and a personal camera to document his experiences—and keep him connected to his creative side—Vietnam veteran Steven Burchik was lucky enough to make it home and years later decided to write about the most challenging year of his life. Like any experience, his year spent with the First Infantry Division stationed in the rice paddies near Saigon included good times as well as bad. He candidly recalls how, although he believed communism to be a serious threat in the world, he soon learned that a guerilla war is a difficult one to fight, and survival rather than victory quickly became his focus. But he also remembers the exhilaration of helicopter rides over serpentine rivers and the time he introduced village kids to a gumball machine. A unique memoir of the war, Compass and a Camera pulls not only from Burchik’s memories, but also from the daily letters he wrote to his fiancée (she kept every single one) and includes numerous photographs from his collection of over four thousand. The images alone make this book a must-have for any history buff or fellow veteran.

15 Chillers for Classrooms, Campfires & Car Trips. Sequel to Odd Lot: Stories to Chill the Heart, which won the Benjamin Franklin Award (silver) for Best Mystery/Suspense Book, the ForeWord Award Honorable Mention for Best Horror, Writer's Digest's Honorable Mention for Best Genre Fiction, and had 6 of 9 stories named Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror. The author is also a double Ray Bradbury award-winner. Ray Bradbury award-winner Steve Burt, who scares listeners nationally through 100 radio readings every October, serves up 15 more of his creepy originals for people who want to read aloud to a group or gasp alone under the covers.

8-page short story, 1 of 9 from Steve Burt's Oddest Yet, winner of the Bram Stoker Award. The Stories to Chill the Heart series includes four collections: Odd Lot (Benjamin Franklin Award silver medalist for mystery/suspense), Even Odder (Bram Stoker Award Nominee), Oddest Yet (Bram Stoker Award Winner), and Wicked Odd (Ippie Award finalist). Many of the stories are used around campfires and in classrooms. Burt's paranormal FreeKs series about psychic teens includes the 12-award FreeK Camp and the 8-award FreeK Show.

Award-winning short horror story, one of 13 excerpted from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt's collection, Wicked Strange, which was named Best Anthology at the 2015 New England Book Festival. Burt's FreeKs series about psychic teen detectives won 30 awards and includes FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, and FreeK Week (Florida Book Festival grand prize winner).

This 18-page horror short story from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt is excerpted from his collection, Wicked Strange, which was named Best Anthology at the 2015 New England Book Festival. A one-eyed man receives a message along with his father's ashes and glass eye, motivating him to travel to a bizarre Maine backwater in search of his roots and his future. The collection, Wicked Strange, is available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook, read by Michael Piotrasch. Burt is also the author of the award-winning FreeKs psychic teen detectives series (print, ebook, and audio), which won the 2015 Florida Book Festival grand prize.

First in the FreeKs series (FreeK Show is second). For adults and teens--An Adventure That's Out of This World. And In It. Free Camp, which somehow became known as FreeK Camp, is for special kids. But just how special most people will never know. Two vans are on their way to the camp in rustic New England, their passengers just starting to get acquainted. One van makes it. The other mysteriously disappears. Now each group of kids must bond together to discover and use their paranormal and psychic powers. The lives of one group literally depend on it. Part mystery thriller, part detective story, part sci-fi, FreeK Camp is all hold-your-breath-I-didn't-see-that-coming adventure. Awards: NY, San Francisco, New England, Paris, London, and Hollywood Book Festival Awards; 2010 and 2011 Beach Book of the Year; 2 Mom's Choice golds, Moonbeam Award, Next Generation Indie. The second in the series, FreeK Show, hit the shelves May 15, 2012 and has won the Mom's Choice gold, the Halloween, Hollywood, NY, and Beach Book Festival.

What do you do when life is going great, but you just need a change? You go on an adventure of course! Sure, Konrad's life was everything a Tailor could want, great thread, sharp needles and an endless supply of items in need of mending. But, for some reason this was just not enough. And so he sets about on the adventure of a lifetime as he encounter a pack of vicious dogs, takes refuge in a home which turns out is filled with the undead, and finally, helps save a kingdom from absolute ruin. Join Konrad and his new friend the Scarecrow as they travel the countryside in search of each of their destinies!

From America's #1 horror author for young adults (9-18). 4th in Stories to Chill the Heart series. Oddest Yet won horror's highest prize, the 2004 Bram Stoker Award (tie with Clive Barker's Abarat), Even Odder was 2003 Bram Stoker Nominee (runner-up to JK Rowling's Harry Potter), Odd Lot won silver Ben Franklin for y.a. horror/mystery/suspense and ForeWord's Honorable Mention for Best Horror Book 2001.Popular school author-visitor.